Re: ContextMenu: Format How do I remove this ?
Don Phillipson
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> In My Computer, right-click a drive.
> The context menu has a choice: Format
> How do I remove this (too easily accessed)?
If this makes you nervous, boot to DOS and
rename c:\windows\command\FORMAT.COM
as XFORMAT.COM then boot Windows. Whenever you
use the menu item to format Windows will report
it cannot locate XFORMAT.COM (because it was
renamed in DOS, not Windows.)
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Don Phillipson
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(Ottawa, Canada)
Ron Badour
entry while other times it is done programmatically. I could not find a
registry entry so I therefore conclude it cannot be removed. Unless you
have more than one partition, the format listing should not be dangerous
since Windows will not let you format the C: drive.
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"Greg Chi" <GregChi...@BZ.invalid> wrote in message
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In My Computer, right-click a drive.
The context menu has a choice: Format
How do I remove this (too easily accessed)?
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dadiOH
> In My Computer, right-click a drive.
> The context menu has a choice: Format
> How do I remove this (too easily accessed)?
Start
Settings
Folder options
File types
Skim down the list to "Drive" and select (highlight) it.
Edit
Select "Format" (in "Actions" window)
Click "Remove"
OK your way out
If "Remove" should be greyed out, use ContextEdit
http://www.ramlende.com/utilities.html
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They are-- Backup, Find, MS-DOS Prompt, & Scan for Viruses. I think even
two of those were acquired!
How many "Format" do you see in your Context Menu?
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"dadiOH" <dad...@wherever.com> wrote in message
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dadiOH
> That's odd! I have four entries there, but "Format" is not one of
> them. They are-- Backup, Find, MS-DOS Prompt, & Scan for Viruses. I
> think even two of those were acquired!
>
> How many "Format" do you see in your Context Menu?
None. No use to me so I removed it long ago.
Franc Zabkar
finger to keyboard and composed:
>Greg Chi wrote:
>> In My Computer, right-click a drive.
>> The context menu has a choice: Format
>> How do I remove this (too easily accessed)?
>
>Start
> Settings
> Folder options
> File types
>
>Skim down the list to "Drive" and select (highlight) it.
> Edit
> Select "Format" (in "Actions" window)
> Click "Remove"
> OK your way out
>
>If "Remove" should be greyed out, use ContextEdit
>http://www.ramlende.com/utilities.html
In my case "format" is visible in the context menu but does not show
up in the "actions" window.
-- Franc Zabkar
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Rex
if you right click your Windows folder, you will also find Delete...
how far do you wanna go and who are you afraid might click the
wrong thing.
there are a million places damage can be done.
..Rex..
"Greg Chi" <GregChi...@BZ.invalid> wrote in message
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In My Computer, right-click a drive.
The context menu has a choice: Format
How do I remove this (too easily accessed)?
PCR
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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR
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"dadiOH" <dad...@wherever.com> wrote in message
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dadiOH
> That's odd. Very, very odd! It's unremoveable!
Yeah, seems to be. Easily at least. Mine *is* gone but I'd forgotten
that I'd used an app to do so. More hidden than gone. App is named
MMMFree...
http://www.hace.us-inc.com/mmm.shtml
That's for XP - the one for earlier Windows is ContextMenu ControlFreak
http://www.hace.us-inc.com/cmcf.shtml
I got rid of format (and others) not because I feared hitting it
inadvertantly but simpy to clean up the context menu.
Anyway, I put it back pro tem and it sure doesn't appear as an "action"
in the drive file type menu. Not with ContextEdit either. No idea
where in the registry the handler for that stuff is but it must be
*somewhere* :)
dadiOH
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PCR
| PCR wrote:
| > That's odd. Very, very odd! It's unremoveable!
|
| Yeah, seems to be. Easily at least. Mine *is* gone but I'd forgotten
| that I'd used an app to do so. More hidden than gone. App is named
| MMMFree...
| http://www.hace.us-inc.com/mmm.shtml
|
| That's for XP - the one for earlier Windows is ContextMenu
ControlFreak
| http://www.hace.us-inc.com/cmcf.shtml
|
| I got rid of format (and others) not because I feared hitting it
| inadvertantly but simpy to clean up the context menu.
Uhuh. We both, then, are fearless. I wasn't afraid to let mine be or
risk mussing the system trying to remove it! I just thought it might
disappear from the floppy drive too. That's why!
|
| Anyway, I put it back pro tem and it sure doesn't appear as an
"action"
| in the drive file type menu. Not with ContextEdit either.
Uhuh. It doesn't appear to be in the same location on the context menu
it would be if it were controlled in Folder Options. It's lower than
those.
| No idea
| where in the registry the handler for that stuff is but it must be
| *somewhere* :)
It could be built into Explorer.exe, although...
C:\>FIND /i "format" C:\Windows\Explorer.exe
---------- C:\Windows\Explorer.exe
C:\>
...doesn't find it, it is found in...
"START button, Find, F/F"
Named.............. Explorer.exe
Containing text... Format
Franc Zabkar
finger to keyboard and composed:
>the one for earlier Windows is ContextMenu ControlFreak
>http://www.hace.us-inc.com/cmcf.shtml
>
>I got rid of format (and others) not because I feared hitting it
>inadvertantly but simpy to clean up the context menu.
>
>Anyway, I put it back pro tem and it sure doesn't appear as an "action"
>in the drive file type menu. Not with ContextEdit either. No idea
>where in the registry the handler for that stuff is but it must be
>*somewhere* :)
If you want to find out where in the registry a particular feature is
hiding, here is a technique I find useful.
Launch regedit.exe and Export the registry to a file named before.reg,
say. Ensure that you select "All" for the export range.
Then make your changes with your app and apply them (if there is an
apply button) or just quit the app in the normal manner, but don't
reboot.
Now return to regedit and export the modified registry to after.reg.
You may need to View -> Refresh before doing so, but I don't think it
is necessary.
Return to your app and undo your changes unless you intend to retain
them.
Now switch to a DOS prompt and compare the two registries, as follows:
fc before.reg after.reg > diff.txt
edit /r diff.txt
Provided that the changes aren't too radical, FC (File Compare)
identifies the differences and writes them to a file named diff.txt.
Note that the differences usually include MRUlists, but these can be
ignored.
dadiOH
> If you want to find out where in the registry a particular feature is
> hiding, here is a technique I find useful.
<snip>
Good tip, many thanks.
Ron Badour
http://www.regview.com/regview/
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