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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  Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 6:15 PM
  Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Right Click Menu Question


  Enter Registry (Start\Run and type in Regedit), highlight My computer in
  Registry and simultaneously hit Ctrl+F keys, type ContextMenuHandlers in the
  Dialog box and choose to search only Keys. Once you search these Keys you
  will see under keys named ContextMenuHandlers something similar to FREE PORN
  GALLERIES, just delete it (something similar to FREE PORN GALLERIES under
  ContextMenuHandlers but not itself).

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