get rid of shortcuts that appear when you right click on START

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If I right click on the START button I have a number of commands/shortcuts
that installed themselves there. How do I get rid of these?

I'm not talking about programs that are pinned to the start window
 
kirk said:
If I right-click on the START button I have a number of commands/shortcuts
that installed themselves there. How do I get rid of these?

I'm not talking about programs that are pinned to the start window
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Turn off Recent Documents.

Right-click the Start button, click Properties, "Customize..." button,
Advanced tab, "Clear List" button, or just turn off "List my most
recently opened documents".
 
Can they specify only the Start menu will be affected? Or will that remove
the extensions from Explorer(etc.) too?

Looking at my own Start button, the additional right-click entries are all
extensions that I added to Explorer, like Open Command Window Here, 7-Zip,
PrintFolder, Unlocker etc.etc..
 
Malke said:
My guess is that the OP means he has unwanted entries in the right-click
context menu. This *is* just a guess since the OP wasn't very
descriptive. To the OP: If I guessed right, use the free ShellExView
program to manage your context menus.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

Manage the context-menu entries for folders, drives and Namespace
objects - http://windowsxp.mvps.org/context_folders.htm


Malke
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shexview did the trick. Thank you!
BTW what is the correct terminoloy for this Right click menu on the start
button?
 
kirk said:
shexview did the trick. Thank you!
BTW what is the correct terminoloy for this Right click menu on the start
button?
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Glad that sorted it for you. The right-click menu, no matter where it is
located, can be referred to as the "context menu". You will get
different entries depending on what you click since obviously different
items have different properties. To see what I mean, right-click on a
file and then right-click on the Task Bar and note what options you are
offered in each case.


Malke
 
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