Right click menu in windows comes in handy for selecting many functions. When you install certain applications they add themselves to right click menu while some other asks you to add to the right click menu or not. Most of the time we accept to add it in the right click menu thinking that it might be useful in the feature.

If you are installing many applications on your computer, chances are that many new items will be added to the right click menu. Many items in the menu make your computer to work harder and you need to wait for few seconds for the menu to appear. You can choose to remove any applications items from the menu easily by hacking the registry in windows. Follow the steps below to enable or disable any items in the menu to make it work faster and keep the menu simple.

You might have observed that there will be different right click menus for files and folders in windows. You need to change registry for files and folders separately to edit each right click menu.

Editing right click menu for files

1) First click on the start button and select Run option from the menu. Now open Windows Registry window by typing “regedit” in the space provided. Now navigate to the following registry key

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\

You will see something like this

2) All the folders that are present under ContextMenuHandlers are the items that appear in the right click menu. You can either delete the folders are simply disable to remove them from the menu. Disabling is advisable because you can enable them in feature if you need the function.

3) To disable any of the items, first click on the folder in the left pane which you like to disable and right click on its value in the right pane and choose Modify from the menu.

4) Now prefix the value data with “-” to disable it and click OK. Now right click on any file and check if the item that you want to remove is disabled or not.

Editing right click menu for folders

1) First click on the start menu button and select Run option from the menu. Now open Windows Registry windows by typing “regedit” in the space provided. Now navigate the following registry key

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\

2) Like said above all the folders present under ContextMenuHandlers are the items that appear in the right click menu.

3) To disable any of the items, click on the folder in the left pane and right click on its value in the right pane and choose Modify from the menu.

4) Now prefix the value data with “-” to disable it and click on the OK button. Now right click on any folder on your computer and check if the selected item is removed from the menu.