Right click option provides a shortcut to open any file immediately but sometimes it crashes due to many unwanted apps being added to the right click menu.
Below is a screenshot of my right click menu option. There are a lot of options available like scanning with an anti-virus app, Snagit, Winrar. This list will be long if I install some more apps. The longer the list, the longer it takes to load.
You can remove any unwanted application from the right-click menu with the help of a small registry hack.
Before you make any changes in the registry, you need to make a proper backup of your registry files first because any unwanted changes in the registry file can harm your operating system.
Go to Start > Run > Type REGEDIT in the run command
Edit Right Click Menu for File
To edit the right click menu for files in the registry editor Go To
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
You will see a lot of folders in the ContextMenuHandlers folder. Click any folder you want to edit. You can delete any unwanted folder or you can Modify the folder so you can get it back in the future.
Click any folder. Let’s say I want to disable the Snagit option. So here I will click on the SnagItMainShellExt folder on the left side. An important file will appear on the main panel (right). Right click on the main file (Default) and click on Modify option.
You will see the Edit String box. Now add a ‘-‘ before the center bracket in Value data and click OK button.
Original data
{CF74B903-3389-469c-B3B6-0204D204FCBD}
edited data
-{CF74B903-3389-469c-B3B6-0204D204FCBD}
Note that there is a ‘-‘ before the brackets in the edited data.
Now try to right click on any file. The unwanted edited application (in this case, Snagit) will disappear from the right-click menu applications list.
Edit Right Click Menu for Folders
Right click menu for folders means when you right click on any folder whatever menu option you get is there. You can also disable unwanted applications from the right-click menu in folders. The process is the same. But you have to edit the registry files of another directory. Go
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\
Now repeat the process as you did with the right click menu editing for the files.
Again, you must edit the registry key to disable the folders in the ContextMenuHandlers folder. You can do this by following the same procedure and adding a minus sign to the Value Data and clicking the OK button. Now right click on any folder to check for that particular disabled app. The folder right click menu won’t show disabled apps.
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