Change default right click behaviour

Hi There,
After doing some digging, I found that a quicker way of starting a slideshow of photos in a folder is to select the picures, hold down ALT and right click (or ALT, CMD, Click). This changes the "quick view" option to "slideshow" (both on the context menu AND the menu bar at the top of Finder.
I would prefer to have this as the default. Is there some way of changing this behaviour so I don't need to press ALT? I use slideshow more than I use quick view...
Thanks,
James

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USBOverdrive
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