Picked up this useful tip from the HowtoGeek. By means of a registry hack, you can add Google Docs and some other Google apps to the New section of the contect menu in Windows Explorer.

I tried this in Windows XP and it works fine. To try it, just download the zip file from here, unzip it somewhere convenient and then click on the file AddGoogleDocsToNewMenu.reg to run it. It runs very fast and should give you a “successfully installed” message.

Next, from the same folder to where you extracted the .zip file, copy all five files OTHER THAN the .reg file that you just used and the uninstall file to D:\windows. Then reboot.

Now, right-click on the Desktop and open the New menu where you should see your new options nicely iconized. OK, but how useful is it really? Not sure, as it really doesn’t take that long to open Google docs but maybe it’ll be useful to some.

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