Shell Extensions for VHD files – Updated

Written by ravikanthchaganti on June 22, 2009 – 11:23 pm - 91 views

I just made another release of VHDShellExt.vbs on MSDN Code Gallery. In this new release, I mostly concentrated on some error checking around the input boxes and added “Merge VHD” feature. Also, enabled all the shell extensions for AVHD files also. So, after you update this release, you will have to run setup once again.

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