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[slowday444]

Periodically (like today while it's raining and my wife is working the weekend)I get obsessive relative to my PC cleanliness/management. I had several Winamp listings in my right click folder menu. I can't even tell you the last time I even used Winamp. I had often checked for them listed in ShellExView and they were never there. I installed Context Menu Editor and that didn't have them either. I just uninstalled Winamp and, to it's credit, it did take the menu items with the uninstallation, which doesn't always happen. Anyway, do any of you know of a more robust editor should I have the need again? I almost posted the whole Winamp folder, thinking you all may have been able to identify the file types for the menu listings and I could have deleted them.

[DennisD]

Hi slowday.

If you go to WinAmp - Options - Preferences - uncheck "show winamp in folder context menus in windows explorer".

Under "associated file types", select "none", and uncheck "restore file associations at Winamp startup".

There might be another way to do this, but this worked for me.

There is another option in preferences, under "shell options", but after doing the above, I've never had to change that.

[slowday444]

DennisD, on Sep 8 2007, 11:13 AM, said:

Hi slowday.

If you go to WinAmp - Options - Preferences - uncheck "show winamp in folder context menus in windows explorer".

Under "associated file types", select "none", and uncheck "restore file associations at Winamp startup".

There might be another way to do this, but this worked for me.

There is another option in preferences, under "shell options", but after doing the above, I've never had to change that.

Than you Dennis! I guess I assumed that Winamp wouldn't have made it that easy.

[Andavari]

slowday444, on Sep 8 2007, 10:34 AM, said:

Than you Dennis! I guess I assumed that Winamp wouldn't have made it that easy.

Winamp for as long as I can remember has made it just that easy. Now something you have to use a context editing program like ShellExView, etc., is for Windows Media Player to remove it's right click clutter from media files even if you don't use it for your media files.