Removing unwanted right click items from desktop folders?

[Mike Barnard]

Hi.

Over a period of time various applications have added items to the
context menu of a desktop folder in my WinXP Pro system. For example
there are seven different ways to compress files with Power
Archiver... four with Winrar, three different "Browse with..."
entries, etc. The stuff I want, such as "rename" is off the screen
and I have to scroll down to get to it.

I've looked at past requests in here and found out about Customising
context menus in Annoyances.Org...

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

....but I'm a bit out of my depth. I can't see how to find the entry
for the particular menus. Maybe I'm just blind or stupid! Can anyone
give me a better idea of how to REMOVE some of the unwanted entries?

Many thanks.

 

[Galen]

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Hi.

Over a period of time various applications have added items to the
context menu of a desktop folder in my WinXP Pro system. For example
there are seven different ways to compress files with Power
Archiver... four with Winrar, three different "Browse with..."
entries, etc. The stuff I want, such as "rename" is off the screen
and I have to scroll down to get to it.

I've looked at past requests in here and found out about Customising
context menus in Annoyances.Org...

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

...but I'm a bit out of my depth. I can't see how to find the entry
for the particular menus. Maybe I'm just blind or stupid! Can anyone
give me a better idea of how to REMOVE some of the unwanted entries?

Many thanks.

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South Coast, UK.

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I'm not taking off yer trousers... Sheesh...

Don't worry about mucking about with the registry. Take the easy road...
Sure it's not as "pure" really and not quite so geeky but, what the heck?

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there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations." -
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[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

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

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Hi.

Over a period of time various applications have added items to the
context menu of a desktop folder in my WinXP Pro system. For example
there are seven different ways to compress files with Power
Archiver... four with Winrar, three different "Browse with..."
entries, etc. The stuff I want, such as "rename" is off the screen
and I have to scroll down to get to it.

I've looked at past requests in here and found out about Customising
context menus in Annoyances.Org...

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

....but I'm a bit out of my depth. I can't see how to find the entry
for the particular menus. Maybe I'm just blind or stupid! Can anyone
give me a better idea of how to REMOVE some of the unwanted entries?

Many thanks.

 

[Mike Barnard]

[To reply by email remove ".trousers" spamtrap from email address]

I'm not taking off yer trousers... Sheesh...

Doh, foiled again!

Don't worry about mucking about with the registry. Take the easy road...
Sure it's not as "pure" really and not quite so geeky but, what the heck?

ShellExView:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

Fantastic. 3 minutes and the context menus are greatly reduced and
managable.

Many thanks.

 

[Mike Barnard]

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

Thanks Ramesh. Bit confusing for a noob but interesting.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

You're welcome Mike.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com

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

Thanks Ramesh. Bit confusing for a noob but interesting.