Suggestion: Launching projects from Scrivener folders, possibly via a right click contextual menu

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(I apologize in advance if there is already a thread that discusses this.)

I’ve been using Scrivener on a Mac for a long time now. I regretfully had to move to the Windows 11 platform for other aspects of my work, and everything is fine, but for one annoying and persistent detail:

The Windows UX for opening existing projects is cumbersome compared with macOS. For users who maintain many archived and alternate project versions, requiring navigation into each .scriv directory to locate project.scrivx is unnecessarily awkward. Is there a supported way to register .scriv projects so they open directly from Explorer, or is this a planned enhancement?

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You can to write a explorer plugin in Registry to add a action to your context-menu.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Shell\OpenWithScrivener]
@="Open with Scrivener"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Shell\OpenWithScrivener\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Scrivener3\\Scrivener.exe\" \"%1\""

For Windows 11, a UWP plugin is needed to display action in the new right-click menu.

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