You could define a favorite in QAP for each program you want to use, and also use the "{SEL_LOC}" placeholder in QAP.
Put all those favorites in a sub-menu, define a hotkey for that sub-menu and you are good to go:
1. Select the file in your file manager.
2. Pop the sub-menu with the hotkey and choose your program.
More info about variables here...
QAP variables, system variables and Special Folders. A mop-up post
Regards,
joeNOR
Note!
You could also trigger that sub-menu (or even each favorite) from the right-click menu with QAPmessenger, but that involves fiddling with that right-click menu in Windows, not strictly speaking a QAP problem.