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More info?)
Thank you to the three of you for your suggestions.
One particular context menu change, that I cannot find in any of those
pages, nor in the registry, nor do I see a way to do it with ContextEdit,
has to do with the "New" command on the context menu.
For instance, if I right-click on a folder, or inside a folder (but not on a
particular file), there is the new command. I use that most often to create
a new folder. Occasionally I might use it for something else. But when I
click on "New", I see a whole long list of programs that have added
themselves to the "New"list, and I would never open them that way, and that
makes the menu slow to load.
Anyone know--how to modify that list of file types under "New" in the
context menu?
"R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:5VOZc.1869$Vl5.1034@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> Context Handlers are found in the Registry, under the Classes category.
> There are handlers for Drive, Folder, etc..
>
> There are tools on the Internet that interface to the Registry instead of
> manually editing the handlers, such as ShellExview.
>
> Modifying Context Menu handlers rates an "8-out-of-10" on the potential
> "Self-Inflicted" injury scale. Seriously, before modifying/deleting any
> Registry
> Key or value, be sure the Export the original key first.
>
>
> " MS" <ms@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:eMp3stUkEHA.632@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > How does one edit what appears on the context menu in Windows Explorer,
in
> > Windows XP.
> >
> > (Some programs automatically put all kinds of commands there, without
> > asking, which I don't want.)
> >
>
>