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Copy and paste the following into the address bar in an explorer window:

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo

Then in the window that opens right click a blank area and choose New> Shortcut

Then browse to the vlc.exe file.

Default locations are:

"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" for 64bit VLC

"C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" for 32bit VLC

Once you've created the shortcut you can play a file in VLC by right clicking the file and choosing Send To> VLC