Persistent Context Menus

[elmikel]

Hi all,
I hope somebody can help me, I am trying to get rid of the context menus on a windows 98 system, I have used policies and directly editing the registry (HKCU\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\policies\explorer\NoViewContextMenu=1) and this seems to fix the problem, but unfortunatly the context menus on the startmenu\programs are still there.


Any Ideas?

Thanks
M.

[GaryRouth]

Welcome to the PC Mechanic forums

There are some shareware programs that offer to do this [I'd scan the downloads with antivirus if you decide to try them]. Usually there are Registry hacks that will work for this sort of thing, but I don't have my Win98 Registry book handy at the moment. If I find anything in there later on, I'll post it.

Here's a shareware context-menu webpage:
http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/li....asp?catid=250

Best of luck
. . . Gary

[. . . and for the long-winded approach, there's always Microsoft's way of doing things: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tre...tain/assoc.asp ]

[GaryRouth]

Update - forum member jmatt posted a link and a few of the Registry tweaks in another thread today: http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.p...346#post442346

Looks like those should do the trick
. . . Gary

[jmatt]

Thanks GaryRouth .

Here is more help elmikel .

http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,...%3D6623,00.asp
Context Edit
Prune Your Context Menus
By Gregory A. Wolking
Windows Explorer's context menus can be very handy. Right-click on a file or selected group of
files, and you get a menu of commands relevant to your selection. As you install more programs,
however, these menus can become cluttered with commands you seldom use.
Explorer's View | Options | File Types mechanism provides only limited control over your
context menus. This issue's utility, ContextEdit, offers much more.