Is is possible to get rid of right-click context menu items?

18 Sep 2007 3:14 PM

Mike Norman

I have installed a number of applications and they all are a bit too helpful,
installing right-click context menu items - Winamp ('enqueue in Winamp',
Windows Grep, TortoiseSVN, etc.)

I can put up with having a fairly large right-click menu for Windows Explorer,
but it seems ridiculous to have a SVN right-click item on 'Recycle bin'
(I am NEVER going to do any SVN operations on 'Recycle bin'; I am
NEVER going to do an 'enqueue in Winamp' from 'My Network Places'.

Is is possible to remove these context menu items from things like
'Recycle bin' and 'My Network Places' but leave them intact for regular
Windows Explorer?

Thanks in advance,
Mike

18 Sep 2007 8:57 PM

Rich Barry

Mike, yes you can.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/excerpt/winxphacks_chap1/index1.html

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"Mike Norman" <mwnor***@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:EAA5256E-0965-42EF-8675-1252F632FB11@microsoft.com...
>I have installed a number of applications and they all are a bit too
>helpful,
> installing right-click context menu items - Winamp ('enqueue in Winamp',
> Windows Grep, TortoiseSVN, etc.)
>
> I can put up with having a fairly large right-click menu for Windows
> Explorer,
> but it seems ridiculous to have a SVN right-click item on 'Recycle bin'
> (I am NEVER going to do any SVN operations on 'Recycle bin'; I am
> NEVER going to do an 'enqueue in Winamp' from 'My Network Places'.
>
> Is is possible to remove these context menu items from things like
> 'Recycle bin' and 'My Network Places' but leave them intact for regular
> Windows Explorer?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Mike

6 Oct 2007 11:44 PM

Tim.T

Also: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/context_folders.htm

And check these Registry keys:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\Shell\
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\Shellex\

Make a registry backup first (rightclick these registry keys and select
'export'). Save them somewhere, and in the event you have problems after the
registry modification, you just rightclick each REG file and select "merge"
to put them back to their previous values.

Tim

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"Mike Norman" <mwnor***@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:EAA5256E-0965-42EF-8675-1252F632FB11@microsoft.com...
> I have installed a number of applications and they all are a bit too
helpful,
> installing right-click context menu items - Winamp ('enqueue in Winamp',
> Windows Grep, TortoiseSVN, etc.)
>
> I can put up with having a fairly large right-click menu for Windows
Explorer,
> but it seems ridiculous to have a SVN right-click item on 'Recycle bin'
> (I am NEVER going to do any SVN operations on 'Recycle bin'; I am
> NEVER going to do an 'enqueue in Winamp' from 'My Network Places'.
>
> Is is possible to remove these context menu items from things like
> 'Recycle bin' and 'My Network Places' but leave them intact for regular
> Windows Explorer?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Mike