windows explorer integration

[john]

I have a number of applications that have decided to integrate
themselves with windows explorer (ie the File drop down menu shows these
applications, otherwise known as shell extensions i believe).

How do I remove some of these applications from the drop down menu?

Thanks
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[Dave Miller]

see
http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,118255,00.asp

I like
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/shellexview.html (freeware utility)

dm

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

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

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Ramesh Srinivasan
MS-MVP, Windows Shell

Windows XP Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com

 

[WaltC]

I've been using FireFox for the past several months and I'd like to start
using IE again regularly, but I've accumulated lots of bookmarks in FF that
I would like to move into IE favorites. Problem is, can't seem to see a
simple way to import my FF bookmarks into IE... Any suggestions? Thanks.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

FireFox has a bookmark manager, and you can export the favorites from there
to a Netscape type Bookmark format. Then, use IE's Import-Export wizard.

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Ramesh, MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User

Windows XP Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com
http://windowsxp.mvps.org

Windows XP Newsgroup Setup Instructions for Outlook Express:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroupsetup.mspx

 

[Guest]

This is a great link.

Can you add any specific information about a particular problem that keeps
recurring for me? Right-clicking files and selecting "Open With" just gives
me one option: another "open with" (not in bold), which is a dead link.
Before it got this bad, XP was not adding new programs to this list when
chosen for a particular file type.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Here it is:

Open-with list is collapsed; No items listed in the open-with menu:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/openwithissue.htm

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Ramesh, MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User

Windows XP Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com
http://windowsxp.mvps.org

Windows XP Newsgroup Setup Instructions for Outlook Express:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroupsetup.mspx