Extending the Default Context Menu

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To submit a selected string (IP) directly to a whois engine from any text,
I've been trying to find a way to add an option to the Default
"cut/copy/delte/paste" context menu.
I would want to launch a URL / submit an IP in a format similar to:
http://www.whois.sc/(selected string).

Does anyone know how to make it happen or where to ask?
 
Right Click Context Menus - Deleting entries

Customizing Right-Click Menu Options in Windows
http://www.jfitz.com/tips/rclick_custom.html

ContextEdit lets you control which items appear on your context menu
(right-click) in Windows Explorer.

Add, Modify, Disable, Delete Context Menu Listings (Line 23)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Manual info:

Click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT Go to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\OpenWithList
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

You can also go to a specific File extension (example:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt\ShellNew) and right click on the ShellNew key and
select Delete, if the item shows up in the New context menu.

Expand the above branch and look through the sub-keys. Locate the one that
corresponds to the entry you wish to remove and right click that sub-key and
select Edit.

You may wish to right click the desired sub-key and select Export. This will
create a REG file that you can double click to re-import the information, if
you find out you deleted the wrong one, or want it back.
 
Thanks, Byte.
Looking into it, and trying to figure out how to make it work. Extending the
-default context menu- (copy/paste,etc) is proving to be quite a challenge,
for an intermediate user. How I am going to add an item to look up an IP
(selected string in any document) to a whois search-engine (in the basic
format of http://www.whois.sc/ +selected string) is still non too clear.
Basically you could imagine the same feature to look up a selected string on
google or microsofts own search engine... Maybe even a fold out menu
presenting different places to submit the query to... That'd be pretty cool,
wouldn't it?

How about floating it as a suggestion to Longhorn developers?
Basically it boils down to a blanket option - by way of a context menu
whenever a string might otherwise be copied - to search for/submit a string
in a format specified by the user to an online search engine/database. Not
only to query for websites (like in google or msn search), but also to obtain
direct information on the selected string. (Imagine a dictionary, a movie
database, a news site but also the whois search option.)
 
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