Deleting Items from a Context Menus

Programs can add extra options when you right click on a file or folder ( such as compress to zip )


Most of the time you can customise these from within the software itself. However some programs do not give you the choice, can leave behind options after uninstalling, or cause a delay before the menu appears.


I found 'tools' to edit context menus to poor, but luckily the options are easy to remove by editing HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT section of the registry.


For all files and folders
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers


For folders
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers


For drives in My Computer
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

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