Right click Start - how to modify menu

[Guest]

When I right click the Start button, a small menu appears. In addition to
things like Open, Explore, Properties, there are other things that have
appeared which were never there before. For example, CD/DVD editing software
(PowerISO).

How do these things get added?

What does it mean when they are there?

How can I delete some of them if I so choose?

What happens to the functionality of those items that I delete from the
Start menu?

Thanks.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

How do these things get added?

PowerISO added the entry. There is probably one from your AV also.

What does it mean when they are there?

That you can use the those commands.

What happens to the functionality of those items that I delete from the
Start menu?

Start button context menu is what you're talking about. The commands can no
longer be used from the Start button context menu. Those commands also
appear in most right click context menus and on File menus in folders.

How can I delete some of them if I so choose?

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

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

Add or remove entries in the New objects list (ShellNew)
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/shellnew.htm

Add items to the New menu (aka ShellNew entries)
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/shellnewadd.htm

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

Creating Context Menu Handlers
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ing/extensionhandlers/contextmenuhandlers.asp

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

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

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[Guest]

Wesley, thanks for the explanation and for providing the links. I was able
to remove the entries that I no longer wanted, and I learned quite a bit
about context menus.

Thanks again.
--
Not all those who wander are lost.

J. R. R. Tolkein

How do these things get added?

PowerISO added the entry. There is probably one from your AV also.

What does it mean when they are there?

That you can use the those commands.

What happens to the functionality of those items that I delete from the
Start menu?

Start button context menu is what you're talking about. The commands can no
longer be used from the Start button context menu. Those commands also
appear in most right click context menus and on File menus in folders.

How can I delete some of them if I so choose?

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

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

Add or remove entries in the New objects list (ShellNew)
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/shellnew.htm

Add items to the New menu (aka ShellNew entries)
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/shellnewadd.htm

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

Creating Context Menu Handlers
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ing/extensionhandlers/contextmenuhandlers.asp

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

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

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

 

[Wesley Vogel]

You're welcome. Keep having fun.

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