Duplicate menu entries

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Michael Harris

Hi,

When I right-clicked on a Desktop shortcut application
icon there were six duplicate entries on the dropdown
menu list. The same thing occurs on right-clicks in the
Desktop Directory folders in Windows Explorer.
I scrutinized the following keys in the Registry Editor
but found no "double" entries therein.
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

I then proceeded to export the whole ContextMenuHandlers
Registry key, after which I deleted all the entries that
appeared as duplicates in the dropdown menu list. I then
re-added the entries, one at a time, and each entry
reappeared in duplicate again!! in the right-click
dropdown menu list.

As a result, the dropdown menu lists are now very long
and it is a serious nuisance to scroll to the desired
item. Can anyone shed some light on this annoying issue?

Thanks,
Michael
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Only on shortcuts and what are you calling drop down menu? The context menu
doesn't drop down. Send me a screen shot via email.
 
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