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Managing the Context Menu Entries manually using the Registry (For "Advanced" users)
* HKCR refers to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
Backup the Registry first
This entire article discusses about editing the registry to modify the context menu entries for an object. Before modifying the registry, it's advisable to create appropriate backups. Start Regedit.exe and navigate to the key which you want to modify. Look under each of the sub-keys for the context-menu entry name which you want to remove. Before deleting the key, backup the corresponding branch if you want to undo the changes later. As you're not modifying various parts of the registry, exporting the related subkey should be enough. Once done, delete the sub key and the context menu is gone.
To know how to backup the registry completely, see the following pages:
Directory
The context-menu entries for Directories is built from these locations in the registry. The same applies for the Start button in the Taskbar
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[HKCR/Folder/Shell/]
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[HKCR/Folder/ShellEx/ContextMenuHandlers/]
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[HKCR/Directory/Shell/]
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[HKCR/Directory/ShellEx/ContextMenuHandlers/]
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[HKCR/AllFilesystemObjects/shell/]
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[HKCR / AllFilesystemObjects / shellex / ContextMenuHandlers/]
Some more obscure locations - Based on the FolderType Template
For Music folders , the context menu loads from this additional location:
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[HKCR/SystemFileAssociations/Directory.Audio/shell/]
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[HKCR/SystemFileAssociations/Directory.Audio/shellex/ContextMenuHandlers/]
For Video folders
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[HKCR/SystemFileAssociations/Directory.Video/shell/]
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[HKCR/SystemFileAssociations/Directory.Video/shellex/ContextMenuHandlers/]
For Picture folders
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[HKCR/SystemFileAssociations/Directory.Image/shell/]
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[HKCR/SystemFileAssociations/Directory.Image/shellex/ContextMenuHandlers/]
Drives
To remove the context-menu entries for Drives , the following are the paths:
- [HKCR/Drive/Shell/]
- [HKCR/Folder/Shell/]
- [HKCR/Drive/ShellEx/ContextMenuHandlers/]
- [HKCR/Folder/ShellEx/ContextMenuHandlers/]
Namespace objects
To remove the context-menu entries for Namespace icons (My Computer, Recycle Bin etc), check here:
- [HKCR/Folder/Shell/]
- [HKCR/Folder/ShellEx/ContextMenuHandlers/]
- [HKCR/CLSID/{Namespace-CLSID} /shell/]
- [HKCR/CLSID/{Namespace-CLSID} / shellex / ContextMenuHandlers/]
Example - For My Computer the key would be:
- [HKCR/CLSID/{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}/shellex/ContextMenuHandlers/]
Files
The context-menu entries for Files are built from the following registry locations:
- [HKCR/<ProgID>/shellex/ContextMenuHandlers/]
- [HKCR /*/shellex/ContextMenuHandlers/]
- [HKCR/*/shell/]
- [HKCR/AllFilesystemObjects/shellex/ContextMenuHandlers/]
To remove the WinZip related context-menu entries, seen on the picture, you need to remove the entries here:
[HKCR/*/shellex/ContextMenuHandlers/WinZip]
Example: For Shortcuts (.lnk files), the context-menu is built from:
- [HKCR/lnkfile/shellex/ContextMenuHandlers/]
- [HKCR/exefile/shell/]
- [HKCR/exefile/shellex/ContextMenuHandlers/]
- [HKCR/AllFilesystemObjects/shell/]
- [HKCR/*/shell/]
- [HKCR/*/shellex/ContextMenuHandlers/]
- [HKCR/AllFilesystemObjects/shellex/ContextMenuHandlers/]