Donna Ohl said:
Here are the 40 items that show up in the jpg file right click menu:
- Open
- Edit with the Gimp
- Edit
- Send to Flickr...
- Print
- Process Photos -> (sub menu)
- Preview
- Refresh thumbnail
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- Rotate Clockwise
- Rotate Counter Clockwise
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- Set as Desktop Background
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- Convert to Adobe PDF
- Combine in Adobe Acrobat
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- Advanced File Security 3 -> (sub menu)
- Scan filename.jpg
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- Add to filename.bca
- Encyrypt by Public Key and Send
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- Edit Security...
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- <huge thumbnail photo>
- 640x480, 24bpp, 48.45KB
- Convert into -> (sub menu)
- Set Wallpaper as -> (sub menu)
- Options -> (sub menu)
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- IZArc -> (sub menu)
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- Open With -> (sub menu)
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- Quick Par -> (sub menu)
- PowerISO -> (sub menu)
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- Photo Info
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- Add to Archive...
- Add to "filename.rar"
- Compress and Email...
- Compress to "filename.rar" and Email
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- Send To -> (sub menu)
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- PGP Zip -> (sub menu)
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- Cut
- Copy
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- Create shortcut
- Delete
- Rename
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- Properties
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Given I don't need all forty of these items, how would I remove some
of
them?
Donna
Check your PGP, security, anti-virus, and all the other software that
you installed that added a context menu entry on that type of object.
They may have an option to provide for cascading menus rather than add
them at the same [root] level in the menu tree. It also appears you
have more than one file compression archiver utility installed. Pick
one that includes all the formats you want supported and get rid of the
rest. Some programs have an option as to whether or not they will add
an extension to Windows Explorer (i.e., an entry in the context menu on
a particular object type).
If you perform all the above to gracefully remove the menu extensions or
reshuffle them under a cascading menu under a root node in the menu
tree, and only after doing that, then you might want to use Nirsoft's
shell extension utility (ShellExView) to disable (hide) items from the
context menu. Using this utility is as low-level in modifying your
system as is using regedit to modify the registry. If you screw up
here, it's your fault if you didn't save a restore point beforehand AND
also save an image to let you recover if you screw up.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html