Addition to CCleaner cleanup apps

[mr don]

Context menus can grow very long, trash your computer with lots of junk registry files.

The following lists the common shell menu locations for all files & folders:

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HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell

 

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

 

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFileSystemObjects\ShellEx

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Items specific to folders:

 

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell

 

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

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It could be listed under tools just like uninstall & startup are.

Perhaps listed as:

- Context Menu

 

The option to disable or delete (Just like startup handler) would be awesome!

 

+ me up, or digg me down, lol. What do you all think?

[Seven_Eleven]

+ up

[Andavari]

+ It could be a good powerful addition for those that know what we're doing, and how to undo it.

- It could be potentially destructive for casual users that aren't into changing their systems internals.

= Dead even.

 

Albeit Nirsoft has two small freeware tools that accomplish dealing with undesirable/unneeded shell items, so why reinvent the wheel?:

* ShellExView - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

* ShellMenuView - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shell_menu_view.html