Thursday, January 1, 2015

Removing Context Menu Entries from the Windows Desktop

Some right-click menu entries (like the ever-pointless NVidia Control Panel) only appear when you right-click the desktop. These are particularly difficult to remove because most menu management tools don't see them because they don't check the right part of the registry. To get rid of these, you need to go to a slightly different part of the registry:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

Delete the subkeys of that to remove shell extensions that load just for the desktop.

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