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

Hark! Who is that, sprinting out of the mini-mall parking lot! It is Richard Perry, hands clutching a sharpened screwdriver! And with a vengeful howl, his voice cometh:

"I'm going to make tacos with your corpse!!!"

( http://chaz.bdmonkeys.net/battle.php )

Dallery 1.3 is available for download

The menu now shows a random thumbnail from the downloads.

See it in action at http://number-7.com

Also includes other minor and CVS improvements.

In short its a nifty way to get round firewall issues on certain hosts.

Detailed Explanation here:

http://www.greycube.com/site/forum_viewtopic.php?3.1535

I currently have it being demonstrated on the right. It looks and works exactly like a regular LGSL, except instead of getting the information directly from the server, its using a copy of LGSL running on my greycube.net test site 🙂