# How to move up Mp3tag in shell?

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-move-up-mp3tag-in-shell/18029
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 10, 2016, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-move-up-mp3tag-in-shell/18029 "2016-06-10T12:27:11Z")
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### Author: ![Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/zerow/32/11379_2.png) [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2016, 6:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-move-up-mp3tag-in-shell/18029/3 "2016-07-03T18:33:39Z")

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> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> I think relies an awful lot on the local settings and environment.
> 
> Perhaps this external link explains more and tells you what to do:
> 
> [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7007852...er-context-menu](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7007852/order-in-the-windows-explorer-context-menu)

It seems, that this other shell fix [REQUEST: shell icon](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/18030/3) have automatically bumped my Mp3tag entry to almost the top: just below those two Switch Sound File Converter options

I then tried a simple trick of exporting around 10 existing Mp3tag shell entries [like HKEY\_CURRENT\_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\shell and for example HKEY\_CURRENT\_USER\Software\Classes\SystemFileAssociations.FLAC\Shell], deleting them and importing back- but they have returned to the same [although still higher] place [just below Switch]

Then I found all those entries in HKEY\_CURRENT\_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache, where Mp3tag was residing literally on top of Switch. So this was also not the place to look into [because rearranging somehow them would be futile, because Mp3tag already is above Switch]

So I've tried the suggested method from [http://superuser.com/questions/749529/add-...to-context-menu](http://superuser.com/questions/749529/add-open-containing-folder-to-context-menu) [which is talked about in the link you provided]. As a test I did what was said there and the "Open Containing Folder" entry was created in my shell: below my current Mp3tag entry, so still below my Switch entries. So if I were to adapt this instruction for opening Mp3tag, it would still be in a wrong place of my shell [not at the very top]

Then I tried the second method from [http://techoqueries.blogspot.de/2012/08/ho...options-in.html](http://techoqueries.blogspot.de/2012/08/how-to-change-order-of-options-in.html). Unfortunately I did not find

```
mp3tag
MP3Tag
using switch
Switchwhile at the same time being able to find
open with[which is mentioned there as an example]

```

The only other thing I could come up with was to look for "using switch" throughout the registry, to see if

```
C:\Program Files (x86)\NCH Software\Switch\switch.exewas followed anywhere by something other that
"%1"like in the cases of entries in registry evoking
C:\Program Files (x86)\Mp3tag\Mp3tag.exeThat way I found multiple Switch entries with
"%L"
-extfind IMS "%L"
-extfind Scribe "%L"
-convert -format .flac "%L"But I do not know what they stand for [except for the obvious "convert" and "format"] so I do not know if they are responsible for sticking those two Switch entries always at the top of my shell ERGO I do not know if it's worth to mess around with them [unfrtunatelly places where I would need to remove / add those values are counted in dozens]

```

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