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Did you try Nir's openwithview
It gives the option to disable them .
It also gives you the reg entries - so you can find them from that if you want to manually remove.
Did you try Nir's openwithview
It gives the option to disable them .
It also gives you the reg entries - so you can find them from that if you want to manually remove.
This can also be a file association or plugin issue. As for opening avi files in Chrome etc., look at this page for ideas.
Stop playing media files within browser - Google Chrome Help
Another thing, many apps give you the option to tweak shell integration. E.g. in winrar, I can decide exactly what context menu options are available via the program window itself. Explore such options for the apps you use.
See these pages for ways to finger the context menu.
Edit Context Menu Items In Windows 7 & Vista
How to Clean Up Your Messy Windows Context Menu - How-To Geek
Just a thought.
Are you running 64-bit? Some of these registry keys get duplicated in the Wow6432Node. Sometimes you have to change the entries in the Wow6432Node as well, sometimes they change themselves when you modify the "regular" registry keys.
Cheers for those links I'll give them a try, InfraView was annoying to get rid of through the registry as it constantly kept showing up in the list but, now its gone and I had a FLV Player problem where Open with>Flv Player.exe would play a .flv file with VLC instead but got that sorted :)
Which keys are you deleting and which ones remain?
Some keys are copies of others, you may just be deleting the copies. Next time you log in / reboot the copies are recreated from the "masters".
Can you post full details of one example. In regedit, Export all the "Shell / Open" keys for a specific program. Edit the exported files using Notepad and and copy and post the key data here?
Tip:
Whenever I Export keys from the Registry, I always rename the exported file to a .txt file straight away (keeping the .reg part of the name). That way if I double-click it it opens in Notepad rather than is applied to the Registry. Seems much safer to me.
Not a bad idea Darkstar. You can always change open context menu item to open .reg files with notepad instead of regedit.
Use the merge option to merge, obviously.