Removing redundant items from Right click on Start button

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Recently aquired a system running XP Sp2, so far so good, however one slight
niggle, there are some unwanted and some redundant (the programmes referred
to having been uninstalled) items left on the START button right click drop
down menu.

Any ideas on how to 'clean up the menu' and get rid of them?

regards
Sean3DD
 
Sean said:
Recently aquired a system running XP Sp2, so far so good, however one
slight niggle, there are some unwanted and some redundant (the
programmes referred to having been uninstalled) items left on the
START button right click drop down menu.

Any ideas on how to 'clean up the menu' and get rid of them?
Click to expand...

Right-Click and seletc DELETE?
 
left or right click launches program (or trys to) there is no secondary
rightclick available.

Regards Sean3DD
 
Sean said:
Recently aquired a system running XP Sp2, so far so good, however
one slight niggle, there are some unwanted and some redundant (the
programmes referred to having been uninstalled) items left on the
START button right click drop down menu.

Any ideas on how to 'clean up the menu' and get rid of them?
Click to expand...

Shenan said:
Right-Click and seletc DELETE?
Click to expand...

Sean said:
left or right click launches program (or trys to) there is no
secondary rightclick available.
Click to expand...

Then you have other things turned off hat are on by default - but that's
another day..

C:\Documents and Settings

Look under your username folder and Start Menu - edit as wanted.
Add/Remove/Move/Copy shortcuts as you want.
Look under All Users folder and Start enu - same advice.
 
Link leads to a site labeled 'this site is defaced'
with a sub text about a web worm, didn't stay long enough to read anything
else

thoght you should know

thanks anyway, any other ideas?

cheers Sean 3DD
 
A few more links on context menus...

Add items to the New menu (aka ShellNew entries)
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/shellnewadd.htm

Add or remove entries in the New objects list (ShellNew)
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/shellnew.htm

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

Customize Context Menus
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article02-026

Customize the right click context menus
http://www2.technobabble.com.au/article182.html

Creating Context Menu Handlers
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ing/extensionhandlers/contextmenuhandlers.asp

Customizing Right-Click Menu Options in Windows
http://www.jfitz.com/tips/rclick_custom.html

Or here...
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_c.htm

Scroll down to:
Context Menu - Customizing Windows Explorer Context menu
(right click menu in windows explorer)


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I had all of those when I first posted. But I forgot to include them in the
first post. 8-)

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Many thanks Wes, I have managed to sort out the redundant stuff, but you know
how it is, by reading the articles I have now 'found' many other 'problems'
that need? sorting!

thanks again

Sean3DD
 
Sean3DD,

Opportunities abound for the tweaker. Keep having fun! :-)

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