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The context menu is handled by a registry entry that’s kept in the .reg le. Double-
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.pdf]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.pdf\Shell]
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@="Print with Filename"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.pdf\Shell\PrintwithFile\command]

@="\"C:\\Program Files\\IrfanView\\i_view64.exe\" \"%1\" /print"

You can see that it assumes the location of Irfanview is “C:\Program

Files\IrfanView\i_view64.exe” which is ne for any x64 version of Windows. If you wanted
to change this to work with JPG les then you could just edit the .reg le in Notepad and
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