New option in RIGHT CLICK context menu (for files and folders)

[heweaver]

Within the last month, I noticed a new option at the very bottom of my
right-click context menu. After the PROPERTIES option, there is
another divider bar, and then an option that says TERMINATE with a
little yellow ball with a blue "X" icon beside of its name. I have
tested it, and it seems to securely delete the file or folder to where
it cannot be recovered. It even gives a confirmation popup.

The problem is, I cannot find which program has added this. When the
program is running (for larger files and folders) it takes a few
minutes to run, and it shows the progress in the lower left hand corner
of the screen. The progress bar kinda reminds me of an older program,
but maybe I am mistaken.

Does anyone know what program this TERMINATE button could have come
from?

If not, does anyone here know where I can find the context entries so
that I can see exactly what its executing (so I can remove that
application manually if needed).

I have searched the entire registry for the word TERMINATE and the only
ones that came up seemed to have nothing to do with context menus.

Thanks!

 

[damorrison]

I wonder if you have a new add-in that has it?
goto tools addins
see if anything is there, hopefully somebody else has seen this before

 

[Wesley Vogel]

ShellExView v1.13 - Shell Extensions Manager
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

Manage the context-menu entries for folders, drives and Namespace objects
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/context_folders.htm

See table under Method 1
Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm

Customize the right click context menus
http://www2.technobabble.com.au/article182.html

Customize Context Menus
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article02-026

Customizing Right-Click Menu Options in Windows
http://www.jfitz.com/tips/rclick_custom.html

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[heweaver]

Well I got the SHELLEXVIEW program and it was not listed. After
digging around in the registry, I found the following entry:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\FileTerminator]
@="{EBDF1F20-C829-1010-8233-0020AFCE97A9}"

I exported that section of my registry, and deleted the entry. Then
the option to TERMINATE was gone when clicking files, but folder clicks
still gave that option. I then decided to re-add the exported registry
entry, and got prompted by MS Antispyware to allow or block...so I told
it ALLOW and for an instant, I saw the antispyware reference a file
called "filete~1.dll" - so I did a search for filete*.dll in the
program files folder, and it was listed in the folder for Iolo search
and recover. So I went into that program and looked around for its
options, and sure enough, there was an entry for placing the file
terminator inside the context menu.

I removed it. I wouldn't mind it being there, but its at the bottom
where PROPERTIES should be, and I have a bit of a trigger finger when
it comes to bringing up file properties.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Glad you foud out how to get rid of it.

I know what you mean about Properties being at the bottom of the context
menu.

Keep having fun.

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