Clean Up IE's Right-Click Menu
By Neil J. Rubenking
I've got a lot of garbage in my Internet Explorer right-click menu—pointers
to programs that no longer exist on my machine, for example. How do I edit
this menu?
Michael Reeves
You'll have to dig into the Registry. Launch REGEDIT and navigate to the key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt. Each subkey
of this key represents one menu item. Many will include an ampersand (&) to
define the underlined key associated with the command.
To get rid of a command, you can delete the corresponding key, but that's
awfully permanent. Instead, highlight the key you want to delete (for
example, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt\Zoom
&In). Choose Export from the Registry menu and export that branch to a file.
Now delete the key. Open the exported REG file in Notepad. Find the string
MenuExt near the end of the long third line and change it to MenuExt-. Save
the file and double-click to launch it. Your no-longer-used menu item's
Registry data will be saved in the Registry under the key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt-. If you want
to bring the key back some day, you can reverse the procedure described
here.
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