How to assign more then one open action to one file system

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Published on 2011-02-17T06:54:27Z Indexed on 2011/02/17 7:27 UTC
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All operating system I use apart form Windows have a “Open with…” options for there Explorer, Finder, whatever. This is very useful as often more then one program can handle a given file extension.

With the exception on zip file I generally have not seen such a function on Window. However since there is an exceptions it is possible.

The questions I have is: How can a “Open with…” can be archived with windows? Is there perhaps a tool which can do it?

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