Hi, I have to build an application that will run as a windows service. It will recognise when a USB mass storage device has been connected to the windows machine, and instead of the standard windows processing that creates a removable drive, a simple custom windows explorer interface will be displayed. The net effect is the ability to be able to plug in a USB mass storage device and give the user the option to look at the files on the device before windows explorer and the windows o/s creates a removable drive. I have to built a custom file manager that can do cut, copy and paste operation. I have SDK for this. Does anybody have any idea regarding this?

Probably you have seen "winrar" to add "Add to archive" type menuitem to default right-click pop-up menu. I want to add this feature to my file conversion software. After some searching on the internet, I think I have to modify the Windows Explorer context menu. I don't know how to do it. Does anyone know how to do it? Tamal Saha, Student, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.