Right Click question

[Henry]

Running WinXP PRO SP3

When I right click on an item in Windows Explorer, I get a number of options.
There is one option I don't want there and would like to remove it from the
list. Is there a way to remove the item please?

Henry

 

[Paul in Houston TX]

Running WinXP PRO SP3

When I right click on an item in Windows Explorer, I get a number of
options. There is one option I don't want there and would like to
remove it from the list. Is there a way to remove the item please?

Henry

Possibly.
Google search: remove from right click context menu

 

[Henry]

Possibly.
Google search: remove from right click context menu

I did that and followed the directions for a registery hack, but the option I
want to get rid of is not listed in the suggested places in the registry.

Anyone else?

 

[Paul]

I did that and followed the directions for a registery hack, but the
option I want to get rid of is not listed in the suggested places in the
registry.

Anyone else?

My brain popped out these keywords...

shellex context menu handlers

And this popped up.

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

I would expect items you've added to appear in this tool, but
I don't know about the ones provided by Windows (default items).
Like, I don't know if you can reduce the Context Menu to an
empty list or not.

Paul

 

[Mayayana]

It'd be a lot easier if you said what the item is.

At the top will be items that are created with keys
under HKCR\*\Shell\ After that come items that are
created with keys under HKCR\*\ShellEx\.

* in this case can be * itself, or anything else. HKCR\*\
is for universal items that apply to all files. Something
like HKCR\.txt\shell\ would have items that only show
when right-clicking a text file. Items that show for
folders will be under HKCR\Directory\ or HKCR\Folder\.

Knowing that much you can search the Registry for
the item you want to remove. If the item is below the
first separator, below SendTo, then you probably can't
remove it.

| Paul in Houston TX wrote:
|
| > Henry wrote:
| >
| >> Running WinXP PRO SP3
| >>
| >> When I right click on an item in Windows Explorer, I get a number of
| >> options. There is one option I don't want there and would like to
| >> remove it from the list. Is there a way to remove the item please?
| >>
| >> Henry
| >
| >
| > Possibly.
| > Google search: remove from right click context menu
| I did that and followed the directions for a registery hack, but the
option I
| want to get rid of is not listed in the suggested places in the registry.
|
| Anyone else?

 

[Henry]

It'd be a lot easier if you said what the item is.

At the top will be items that are created with keys
under HKCR\*\Shell\ After that come items that are
created with keys under HKCR\*\ShellEx\.

* in this case can be * itself, or anything else. HKCR\*\
is for universal items that apply to all files. Something
like HKCR\.txt\shell\ would have items that only show
when right-clicking a text file. Items that show for
folders will be under HKCR\Directory\ or HKCR\Folder\.

Knowing that much you can search the Registry for
the item you want to remove. If the item is below the
first separator, below SendTo, then you probably can't
remove it.

| Paul in Houston TX wrote:
|
| > Henry wrote:
| >
| >> Running WinXP PRO SP3
| >>
| >> When I right click on an item in Windows Explorer, I get a number of
| >> options. There is one option I don't want there and would like to
| >> remove it from the list. Is there a way to remove the item please?
| >>
| >> Henry
| >
| >
| > Possibly.
| > Google search: remove from right click context menu
| I did that and followed the directions for a registery hack, but the
option I
| want to get rid of is not listed in the suggested places in the registry.
|
| Anyone else?

I found out that there was a box to uncheck in the setup for the application.
Thanks anyway.

Henry

 

[Hot-Text]

Running WinXP PRO SP3

When I right click on an item in Windows Explorer, I get a number of
options. There is one option I don't want there and would like to remove
it from the list. Is there a way to remove the item please?

Henry

Right click
an item
We Need to know
the Type of File First
to be able to give you
a true answer

 

[Hot-Text]

I found out that there was a box to uncheck in the setup for the
application. Thanks anyway.

Henry 59% of the time
it is a application
with a uncheck the Box

To Fixes right click
context menu too
Open With
and
Save As
or
Send to

 

[Zo]

Henry was thinking very hard :

Running WinXP PRO SP3

When I right click on an item in Windows Explorer, I get a number of options.
There is one option I don't want there and would like to remove it from the
list. Is there a way to remove the item please?

Henry

For your future reference, go here: http://www.nirsoft.net/

Download these four items and you will have the ability to enable and
diaable just about every item that is listed on your right click menu
without going directly into the registry to do it.

ShellExView
ShellOpenwithview
Shellmenunew
ShellView

Note: They are all very small downloads. You may even see other items
that interest you.

 

[Henry]

Henry was thinking very hard :



For your future reference, go here: http://www.nirsoft.net/

Download these four items and you will have the ability to enable and
diaable just about every item that is listed on your right click menu
without going directly into the registry to do it.

ShellExView
ShellOpenwithview
Shellmenunew
ShellView

Note: They are all very small downloads. You may even see other items
that interest you.

The only one I could find was ShellExView and when I downloaded it I got "
Failed - Insufficient permissions".

 

[VanguardLH]

Running WinXP PRO SP3

When I right click on an item in Windows Explorer, I get a number of options.
There is one option I don't want there and would like to remove it from the
list. Is there a way to remove the item please?

Other than using shell extension editors (as mentioned by Zo for
Nirsoft), have you looked into whatever program added that menu entry to
see if it has an option to enable/disable its intregation? The shell
extension editors will let you disable/enable/delete extensions, not the
menu entries that are part of Windows Explorer. You never mentioned
which context menu item it was that you wanted to delete so you also
never implied for which program that shell extension was added.

 

[Henry]

Henry has brought this to us :



Must have something to do with "Pro" edition permissions; I have no such
problems with XP Home. "Systems Tools" has two of them and a search box
is located near the top to find the others.

I updated Chrome to Version 37.0.2062.94 m and now I downloaded Update
Redirect. I had Chrome Version 36.0.1985.143 m.

 

[Henry]

Henry wrote:




Other than using shell extension editors (as mentioned by Zo for
Nirsoft), have you looked into whatever program added that menu entry to
see if it has an option to enable/disable its intregation? The shell
extension editors will let you disable/enable/delete extensions, not the
menu entries that are part of Windows Explorer. You never mentioned
which context menu item it was that you wanted to delete so you also
never implied for which program that shell extension was added.

You are exactly right. I looked at the setup for the program and there was
a box to click so the shortcut wouldn't appear in the right click options.

 

[Zo]

Henry explained on 8/26/2014 :

I updated Chrome to Version 37.0.2062.94 m and now I downloaded Update
Redirect. I had Chrome Version 36.0.1985.143 m.

:-? :-?

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

Henry was thinking very hard :

For your future reference, go here: http://www.nirsoft.net/

Download these four items and you will have the ability to enable and
diaable just about every item that is listed on your right click menu
without going directly into the registry to do it.

ShellExView
ShellOpenwithview
Shellmenunew
ShellView

[]
I couldn't find that last one?
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design paper that you can only write good things on. There are no good or evil
tools. You can put an engine in an ambulance or a tank. - Sir Tim Berners-Lee,
Radio Times 2009-Jan-30 to -Feb-5.

 

[Zo]

After serious thinking J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote :

Henry was thinking very hard :

For your future reference, go here: http://www.nirsoft.net/

Download these four items and you will have the ability to enable and
diaable just about every item that is listed on your right click menu
without going directly into the registry to do it.

ShellExView
ShellOpenwithview
Shellmenunew
ShellView

[]
I couldn't find that last one?

My mistake, ShellView is really a title for the combination of the
other three and should not have been included. Sorry about that :-( I
hope that you found the other three useful. I used them a lot.