Removing items from Context Menu

[BAZ]

Is there any way we can remove some unneeded items from the context menu?


I especially want to get rid of ones like 'compress and email' etc.

 

[Kari]

Open Registry Editor (regedit), go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers and delete the unwanted entries. This is for the Folder Context Menu.

For File Context Menu, go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers and do the same.

Kari

 

[BAZ]

Thank you, Kari!

 

[mac5050]

Uh.... why don't I have these entries?

I have HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex with a (Default) string in it (no value). It's the very first folder in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.

And in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers I also have a single (Default) string with no value set.

Am I missing something?

TIA

mac

 

[DarkRhystar]

Why should a user need to modify the registry to change context menu items?

It seems like after a decade or more that we should have a better solution available to us than digging into the registry.

 

[Kari]

Uh.... why don't I have these entries?

I have HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex with a (Default) string in it (no value). It's the very first folder in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.

And in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers I also have a single (Default) string with no value set.

Am I missing something?

TIA

mac

You don't see this:



Kari

 

[mac5050]

Oh, geez!! I'm soooo dumb!

Ok. The folders are there. My excuse is that I'm still not used to the arrow to expand, instead of a plus sign.

That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. LOL.

Thanks, Kari!

mac

 

[Kari]

Happens to all of us time to time.

Kari

 

[whs]

Here are a couple utilities that can clean-up the context menu:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shell_menu_view.html

And this is the corresponding website:
http://www.nirsoft.net/system_tools.html

 

[BAZ]

Here are a couple utilities that can clean-up the context menu:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shell_menu_view.html

And this is the corresponding website:
http://www.nirsoft.net/system_tools.html

Thanks for mentioning this software here, whs. I will try it next time I have any similar issue.