right click menu on shortcuts

[IceWine]

I am running Windows 98SE...when I right click on my desktop shortcuts I have entries that I do not want or need, in fact their are duplicate entries such as "Scan With Norton Anti-Virus"....also my Roxio Go Back program has added 2 duplicate entries which I do not want.

I know that most of the time you can go into the individual programs (which I have done) and turn off the "shell extension" feature but these 2 programs do not have these configuration options.

I'm desperate and have searched everywhere for the answer!!

[kunphuzil]

Find the program registry key and try looking around in there. There should be something like "shell extension" like you said. Turn the value to 0 to turn it off. If you need more help on this tell me.

[IceWine]

Yes, I figured that it was a registry issue..but there must be some place that Windows stores all of the info from the context menus?? Like one place I can go to in order to remove unwanted entries instead of hunting down keys in each individual program.

[RWSchlatter]

"... Like one place I can go to in order to remove unwanted entries instead of hunting ..."
yes, it's all well defined and the place is the registry key HKCR (H_KEY_CLASSES_ROOT).
howto in: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/Shell/Shell_Int/shell_ext.asp (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnw2k/html/shellinstobj.asp>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnw2k/html/shellinstobj.asp</a>
and)

"...Like one place ... in each individual program..."
no, the setup is not per program, but per target icon type where you see the context menu items. Either under the file extension or by using a reserved name.

The possible places you need to look for the folfertype icons can be taken from the second link above, look for header "Predefined Shell Objects". You will have to remove a subkey below ...\ContextMenu key



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Regards - Richard