Right click icon problem

[Carl Sheldon]

Please can someone help me. When I right click on a desktop icon, i have an
onerous thread lingering. The icon says 'delete with CleanSlate'. I must
have installed something (possibly The Shield 2005 Antivirus!!!) then
uninstalled it with it leaving this thread. Where do I go in the registry to
manually delete this error?? Appreciate your thoughts.
Thanks Carl

 

[Malke]

Please can someone help me. When I right click on a desktop icon, i
have an onerous thread lingering. The icon says 'delete with
CleanSlate'. I must have installed something (possibly The Shield 2005
Antivirus!!!) then uninstalled it with it leaving this thread. Where
do I go in the registry to manually delete this error?? Appreciate
your thoughts. Thanks Carl

Use the free ShellExView to manage context menu extensions:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

Malke

 

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Daniel_Mart=EDn?=]

Use ShellExView (http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html) and see if that entry is listed. If not, and the context menu handler is only shown when right-clicking a shortcut (.lnk file), take a look at this Registry key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shell (if it exists).

 

[Kelly]

It depends on where in the right click menu.

Go to Start/Run/Regedit and navigate to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\OpenWithList
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

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

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[Guest]

I had exactly the same problem. The key is WipeAllCom. I found it in:
HKCR/AllFileSystemObjects/shellex/ContextMenuHandler
as well as 2 of the items below (with Directory and Folder substituting for
AllFileSystemObjects above). Deleting those 3 keys eliminated the item from
all my context menus.