After installing some programs appear in the contextual menu commands, it is not always necessary (even more so after these programs will be removed). - Ka order to put things in the diet, leaving only truly useful menu dishes!

Menu offered by a click of the right mouse button, it is called a contextual because their contents depend on the context - in other words, from the way in which program you are and on what object clicked. File utilities, many free programs and other programs that were more convenient to use them, often add to their contextual menu commands and whole sections. So come, in particular, and WinRar WinZip archive, as well as e-mail clients Outlook Express and The Bat! That adds contextual menu files in the package and send commands via email as an attachment.

However, in some utility is provided a convenient means of removing the settings and context menu commands. This is the best and most reliable way of bringing order. But if such a function in the program (or if you have time to remove it), the composition of the menu can be changed using Windows system registry.

Archives WinZip
Popular utility-archiver WinZip adds a contextual menu commands multiple files (such as Add to Zip), or provides them to pull WinZip. To configure these teams run WinZip in the "classical" mode (not in the mode of masters), and then select Options> Configuration (Options> Preferences). In version 8.1 and later tab System (System) of section Explorer Enhancements (Expansion "Explorer"). To avoid too long digging in search of the correct teams in these versions can disable mode Display context menu items in a submenu (Nekaskadnoe menu) - and then archiving team will be posted in main menu, as in previous versions of WinZip.

To change individual teams or turn select the relevant elements in the Context menu command (contextual menu commands). Disabling regime Display icons on context menus (icons in the menu), you can leave the menu commands, but remove pictograms.

Setting contextual menu commands, created popular WinZip archiver

Music Winamp
A free media player Winamp adds a menu folders three teams: Play in Winamp (Play in Winamp), Enqueue in Winamp (Put in turn Winamp), and Add to Winamp's Bookmark list (Add to the list of bookmarks Winamp). To remove them, open Winamp and select Options> Preferences (Tools> Options), or right-click in the window or at its bar, and select the same team from its own context menu. On the left a picture menu hierarchy. In the General Preferences (General Properties), select File types branch (File Types) - in earlier versions, it is called Setup (Setting) - and disable mode Show Winamp in folder context menus in Windows Explorer (Show Winamp in contextual menu folder "Explorer" ), or, in some versions, Directory context menus (context menus catalogues), and then click Close (Close).

Context menu "Explorer"
In Windows 2000 and XP Pro delete individual command from the context menu My Computer (My Computer) and folders you can use Group Policy tool (group policy). Suppose we want to remove from the context menu My Computer (My computer) command Manage (Office), which runs the administration Computer Management tool (the computer). To do this, select Start> Run (Start> Run), enter gpedit.msc and press Enter. A dialog appears on the left side of which will be displayed hierarchical tree commands. Go to Local Computer Policy \ User Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ Windows Components \ Windows Explorer, double-click on an element of Hides the Manage item on the Windows Explorer context menu (Hide element of "The Office" from the context menu "Explorer"), select Enable (Included), and then click OK.

The utility also gets his teammates Start> Programs> Administrative Tools> Computer Management (Start> Programs> Administration Tools> Managing computer), and if the select Start> Run, enter compmgmt.msc and click on the OK button.

In order to remove all context menu folders in Windows 2000, go to Windows Explorer icon (Explorer) in the left pane and double-click on an element Remove Windows Explorer's default context menu (Remove standard context menu "Explorer"). In Windows XP, you need to select an element of the same name, to activate the Enable mode (included), and click the OK button. When the next time you click the right mouse button on a folder located on the desktop, or on the icon in Explorer, nothing will happen - indeed, context menus remaining objects, such as toolbars, still will work. To rescind these changes, described sufficiently to return to the dialog box, select Not configured (Not konfigurirovan), and click OK.

Setting contextual menu "Explorer" Windows 9x

As we can see, the context menu commands can not only remove, but also to create. True, it is necessary to keep abreast of certain agreements made when these teams. You can, of course, read smart books on the subject. But for educational purposes, you can use free software with a set of ready-contextual commands. It's called Send To Toys and can be found at :: gabrieleponti.com ::. Многие из них, такие как передача имени файла и его пути в буфер обмена, полезны и сами по себе — но еще больше как наглядное пособие для составления собственных команд контекстного меню.

The last argument: Regedit

If the program does not provide a way to delete it from the context menu commands, you can apply directly to the Windows registry Windows. But first, in case you are wrong somewhere, it is better to back up your Registry.

Then select Start> Run (Start> Run), type regedit, and press Enter. On the left pane, locate the open window HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT element (above) and double-click on it. In this vein, the system registry data stored on the types of files, including those associated with them on the contextual menu.

For example, to delete command Browse with ACDSee posed program ACDSee images, select key ACDSee, and then press the Delete key or click the right mouse button and select Delete (Delete). Then select File> Exit (File> Exit) to close the Registry Editor. When you next time right mouse button click on the folder, this command in the menu will no longer be. And in case you later want to return it to the place, find the file you create backup branch of the registry, click the right mouse button and select Merge (Attach). In order to run this branch of a return to the roster, then click Yes (Yes), and then on the OK button.

Removing the context menu commands from the system registry

Some context menu commands are not in the Directory, and in section Folder - more specifically, in subsections HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ Folder \ shell and HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ Folder \ shellex. For example, both can be removed from the context menu command validate file Kaspersky Anti-Virus (tentatively creating a backup copy of the branch).

To remove the context menu commands for other file types is performed a similar procedure. Unfortunately, it is not always easy to find the registry key for the desired file type. One way to do this - to open Windows Explorer (Explorer) or any folder window, select the appropriate file type and use the combination Shift F10 to access the contextual menu file. Then go back to the Registry Editor, deploy branch HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, select Edit> Find (Edit> Find), and enter the name of the command that you want to remove. In doing so, make sure section Look at (Search for) has been selected Data (Data). Click Find Next. If you are lucky, you will find the command, in which the vein is the text you entered. In Switches file types usually have their extensions - for example, the key to TXT files with a named txtfile. As on previous occasions, export the parent key (such as the shell) to delete all the keys (in the event that you are wrong and want to restore everything as it was), then highlight the key that you want to delete and press the Delete key.

Some commands are present in the contextual menu of several types of files. To remove these teams need to open up the registry editor in key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ * \ shellex \ ContextMenuHandlers, select Registry> Export Registry File (Registry> Export Registry file) or File> Export Registry File (File> Export Registry file) to create a backup a copy of this branch, and find in it the keys corresponding to the menu of commands that you want to remove. For example, to delete the commands that are generated during the installation of Adobe Acrobat 6 for many file types, select Adobe.Acrobat.ContextMenu key and hit the Delete or right-click on this key, and select Delete (Delete).

And whether you need? ..

Each application context menu adjusts to your Giant. Sometimes accounted probiratsya through thickets dialog boxes, seeking clues to help system, and even on the Internet. I still frequently found in the end that nothing can not be changed. For example, if the team checks Kaspersky Anti-Virus removed from the roster, the same team of Norton AntiVirus "glued" forever, so it only remains to relax and… accustomed.