Solved Remove "set as desktop background" in Explorer Context Menu

[vermin]

I've noticed that if I right click a jpg file I get "set as desktop background" option in the context menu.

How can I remove this option?

PS: I just want to remove the context menu option, not the function ..

 

[A Guy]

I believe all the options that will remove the context menu entry will also disable the function. I have yet to find a program that cleans up all available context menu entries. Most only do limited removal.

Some links for disabling:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/62048-desktop-background-specify-prevent-change.html

Disable Set as Desktop Background altogether - found the solution! - Microsoft Windows Vista Community Forums - Vistaheads

You can change the desktop wallpaper setting after administrator selects "Prevent Changing Wallpaper" option in Group Policy

Q&A: Disable right click option to set JPGs or BMPs as Desktop Background | TechRepublic

A Guy

 

[vermin]

*bump*

Thanks but I want a more forwarded answer. Do this, do this.. and voila no "set desktop background" in Explorer Context Menu ..

 

[boohbah]

im not sure it can be done and still have it function.
i have a software called windows 7 manager, it allows you to customize all sorts of areas of win 7. including all context menus. in the vast list of different context menu items that it will allow you to remove ."set as desktop background" is not there.
if fact if you could remove it how would you propose it would still function as right clicking an image as setting it as a background doesn't appear anywhere else but in a context menu,

good research on all those links A guy

 

[A Guy]

Yeah, if the option isn't listed, you won't be able to use it... If you just want a cleaner context menu, I can understand, but otherwise, I can't grok what you want to do

A Guy

 

[vermin]

well, guys and boohbah. Context menu's i fiddled with is .reg that change windows registry. if I press Remove_Share_with_to_Context_Menu.reg the "send to" Explorer context menu disappears. And.. If I press Add_Send-To_to_Context_Menu.reg the "Send to" Explorer context menu appears again.

So I don't want to change How Windows behave with Background usage.. I just want the menu option to vanish

 

[Alejandro85]

Maybe a little (a lot?) late, but searching for a way to do the very same, finally found the way.

The trick is to remove a registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SystemFileAssociations\.jpg\Shell\setdesktopwallpaper

That's for jpg files, but repeat searching the same route with different file extensions and you can delete the context menu option for each one individually. The changes should take effect immediately, without reboot or logoff.

 

[Wakaku]

Maybe a little (a lot?) late, but searching for a way to do the very same, finally found the way.

The trick is to remove a registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SystemFileAssociations\.jpg\Shell\setdesktopwallpaper

That's for jpg files, but repeat searching the same route with different file extensions and you can delete the context menu option for each one individually. The changes should take effect immediately, without reboot or logoff.

Thank you, I've been searching the Registry for so long for such an entry to remove. I overlooked SystemFileAssociation. I even have a bookmark for this key. To make the Set as desktop background disappear, perhaps the entry could be ranamed, but I opted for deletion instead (I deleted the entries for .jpg, .jpe, .jpeg, .png, .bmp, .gif). I just exported REG files for the keys I deleted, so I can restore them easily.

 

[MourningStar]

Alejandro85/Wakaku - Can you explain to me how you are 'setting as desktop background' images, now that you do not have the entry in the context menu? -thx

 

[Brink]

Maybe a little (a lot?) late, but searching for a way to do the very same, finally found the way.

The trick is to remove a registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SystemFileAssociations\.jpg\Shell\setdesktopwallpaper

That's for jpg files, but repeat searching the same route with different file extensions and you can delete the context menu option for each one individually. The changes should take effect immediately, without reboot or logoff.

Thank you, I've been searching the Registry for so long for such an entry to remove. I overlooked SystemFileAssociation. I even have a bookmark for this key. To make the Set as desktop background disappear, perhaps the entry could be ranamed, but I opted for deletion instead (I deleted the entries for .jpg, .jpe, .jpeg, .png, .bmp, .gif). I just exported REG files for the keys I deleted, so I can restore them easily.

Hello Wakaku,

This may be able to help.

"Set as desktop background" - Add or Remove in Windows

 

[Alejandro85]

Alejandro85/Wakaku - Can you explain to me how you are 'setting as desktop background' images, now that you do not have the entry in the context menu? -thx

Just use the normal method. Right click on desktop background => personalize => desktop backgroud => browse for the file you want.

That menu option is merely a shortcut, not at all needed really. The real work is done in the control panel, which has been available in every Windows version (MS just changes the location in each release, but the option is there).

 

[MourningStar]

Alejandro85/Wakaku - Can you explain to me how you are 'setting as desktop background' images, now that you do not have the entry in the context menu? -thx

Just use the normal method. Right click on desktop background => personalize => desktop backgroud => browse for the file you want.

That menu option is merely a shortcut, not at all needed really. The real work is done in the control panel, which has been available in every Windows version (MS just changes the location in each release, but the option is there).

excellent - thank you!

 

[Wakaku]

Thank you very much Mr. Brink. Just what I needed, those ready-to-use REG files (just like your other handy reg files from other tutorials, real time savers). I guess I wasn't able to find the tutorial myself before since it is in the Windows 8 Forums.

To MourningStar, I think Mr. Brink's reply above is the answer/solution to your question/problem.

 

[REB]

Since this thread is not too old, I'll allow my self to bump it with the alternative solution which is to - instead of removing - add a new string value in the "setdesktopwallpaper" key, called Extended.

That way the context menu entry will only appear when shift + rightclick is used.

Like so