Thanks for compliment Ian,
You can control almost most of the stuffs in Right Click Menu with Registry.
By search for ContextMenuHandlers in the Registry you can add or remove
something (I am not sure to say Everything) in Right Click Menu. Let me lead
out some examples:
When you have WinRar, NAV or Winamp installed on your computer you will see
something "strange' everytime when you right click on folders\files. You can
have this rid off with Registry. Vice versa you can add Scan With Adaware
into Right Click menu if you have Adaware installed on your computer. If you
have the need to do this let me know.
I don't know if this is the only way to do it in XP. But I am having it as
the only method. I had a worse thing with Reget, after I installed it an
uninstalled Reget everytime when I right click on files I always see
Download With Reget, and the only method I had to have this rid off is do it
with Registry.
Moreover, you can remove Open With, Sendto...from Right Click Menu also with
Registry.
Huynh Minh Huong
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From: "Ian" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: 30 липня 2003 р. 1:16
Subject: [PCSOFT] Right Click Menu Question


That's a helpful tip.  I've never tried searching the registry that way, ie
highlighting My Computer first.

I first tried the search for 'ContextMenuHandlers' in my usual way, ie
Edit\Find then typed the name.  Nothing found.  Tried it again, still
nothing.

Then I noticed your instruction to to nominate My Computer first, so I tried
that and up popped the reference.

But I don't understand what happened here - I thought a registry search is a
registry search - how come there are areas of the registry that respond to
different search controls?

The reason I did the exercise is that I was searching for a way to get rid
of some Context Menu junk.  Is the method outlined above the only way to do
it in XP?  My search didn't seem to reveal all of the stuff on my context
menu that I want to dump.

Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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