i don't get a UAC prompt, but that is by design (i've toggled UAC all the way down.)

strange that it didn't work for me, while i was examining the other shell reg entries, i noticed the that the...

%V isn't recognized. you want %L. using your .reg files i get context menu items that open c:\windows\system32 and an error message that complains that the path isn't found, presumibly pushd's...