How: remove shortcuts installed under right click start menu

[Mark]

How does one remove the program shortcuts that get placed on the menu that
appears
when you right click on the start button? I'm using Win2K Pro.

[Dave Patrick]

Best to use Control Panel|Add/ Remove Programs, but you can delete them from
\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs
or
\Documents and Settings\%user%\Start Menu\Programs

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Regards,

Dave Patrick
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[Mark]

I don't want to remove the programs from my system, but just the shortcut so
Add/Remove programs I don't believe is what I want. Additionally, I do not
wish to remove the shortcut under start > programs, but the menu that is
displayed when your *right click* on the start button. I have "Browse with
ACDSee" plus a few others that I'd like to remove.

"Dave Patrick" <Ma...@nospam.DSPatrick.com> wrote in message
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[dpc]

There are a couple places you can try. The Start button is a folder like
any other (kind of) with a few enhancements. One way to remove things from
the right-click menu is the following:

Open My Computer.
Click on Tools in the menu bar and select Folder Options...
Click the File Types tab.
Scroll down until you reach File Folder and click on that.
Click the Advanced button.
Select whichever entry it is you want to remove and click the Remove button.

That should take care of it. BUT, if the remove button does not become
enabled for some reason and you can't click on it, you'll have to venture
into the registry. Definitions for the right-click menu of folders are in
the following location in the registry: HKCR\Directory\shell\ If you don't
know what that means, you might not want to be editing the registry, but if
you do...that key should have the same entries as in the Folder Options and
you can delete whichever ones you don't want.

Good luck!

dpc

"Mark" <msi...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
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[Mark]

Thanks dpc... You guess that the Remove button would not be enabled was
correct. When I edited the registry they went away... all but two. From the
same app. WinRAR There still is "Add to archive..." and "Add to Start
Menu.rar" amd I didn't see anything in the registry about these entries. If
you've got anymore tricks that would be cool.

"dpc" <dpc453...@zdnetmail.com> wrote in message
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[nospam...@ualberta.ca]

The Start Menu is a folder. So, any context-menu items you have associated
with folders or directories, will also include Start Menu.
There is a subtle difference between a "folder" and a "directory" (these
show up as a "file folder" in explorer's folder options) - a directory is a
normal folder that contains files - the other includes system folders like
your history or favorites folders. The Start Menu falls into both categories,
so you cannot remove a context-menu item for other folders without also
removing it from the Start Menu context-menu. You may want to just remove
things like the ACDSee one that you probably never use, anyway.

Some of these things (the ACDSee one in particular), you can remove from
within the program that put it there.
Others, you may be able to remove from within "folder options/file types" in
explorer (look for the N/C extension to find folders).
Or, you may have to go into the registry under (for example)
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell
and remove items there.

In article <##wofzLOBHA.1872@tkmsftngp03>, "Mark" <msi...@tampabay.rr.com>
wrote:

[Jiri Tuma]

There are two ways to add items to context menu. The first is via shell
subkey, using similar technic as shortcuts. The second is via shellex
subkey, using registered object handlers. Apps like Winzip, Winrar or
ACDsee are using the second method. If you want to get rid of context menu
items related to those apps, you need to delete proper object handler
specification under shellex subkey. At some cases is hard to identify what
handler is related to what app, so backup all key first.

regards

George

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