Remove right-click menu items from files and folders

This here is also an interesting trick that one can use to modify; remove in this particular context the right-click menu items from files and folder. Everyone must have right-clicked a file and folders and I guess only few have noticed the items that are available. Among those few also one or two have ever wondered how these items came or wanted to remove items that are not much of their use. For those, it’s a jackpot. You can easily remove the items in the right-click of files and folders. It’s just a simpler registry tweak. You just need to know where and what to modify. Before doing any modification in the registry back up your registry in case any malfunction may occur, the system may crash. I remember once I changed a value in registry and the explorer didn’t opened.

Enough of gossips, lets move on with the process:

1. Start -> run
2. Type ‘regedit’ (without quotes) and enter
3. The registry editor will open
4. Navigate yourself to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
5. Click on the ‘+’ sign to expand
6. You will see some of the programs that have added themselves to the right-click menu
7. Just delete the key or in the right pane double-click the default value and put dash ‘-’ infront of the value to disable it
8. Exit the registry

You will see the effect as soon as you exit the registry. There is no need to restart your computer.

The above process was just for removing item from right-click menu of the file. For removing items for the folders and drive step 1 has to be changed to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers and HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers respectively
Enjoy and keep reading.