Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Edit your context menu

Some time it happens that we install a program and after some time when we remove it. Some of the Entries still remain in New Context Menu. So to remove those entries open your registry editor by typing regedit in Start–>Run

Navigate to the following

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\

Explorer\Discardable\PostSetup\ShellNew

and remove any entry (these will be showing in the right pane)

Similarly if you want to remove unwanted items from the Internet Explorer Right Click Menu. You need to navigate to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt

and remove any subkey

Likewise to cleanup Openwith Entires:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts

Delete any sub key for the extentions.

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