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Clean up the Windows Explorer Context menu

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If you’re the kind of a person who frequently tries out softwares, chances are your Windows Explorer Context Menu is loaded with unnecessary items. Even worse – these items in the menu don’t go off when you uninstall particular softwares.

Geeks can modify the registry to edit the shell context menu, while others like you and me can sit back and use these free tools to make things easier:

Context Menu Editor
A simple tool that lets you remove items on the context menu. Once you delete an item, you can’t get it back – there’s no undo feature. In addition to customizing the explorer context menu, you could also use it to modify Internet Explorer’s context menu.

You can download this tool via Softpedia here.

Context Menu Manager
You can use this tool to remove items from the context menu. Here’s the plus: you can go back and undo changes: re-activate items if you need them.

Download Context Menu Manager here.

Mmm Free Edition
The name sounds a bit funny to me ;) With Mmm, you can hide context menu items, move them, and also put items on a sub-menu. The unique drag and drop interface is a breeze – just drag and drop items to delete or move them to a different place.

Get Mmm here

Did you try these softwares and did you find them useful? Or do you try other tools to make things easier? Share your views in the comments.

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June 7th, 2007 at 8:24 am

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  • http://sankaranand.com/blog/ SankarAnand

    nice tips buddy, i also want to tell you about cc cleaner which i have been using for years. its a all in one cleaner which is very simple to use

  • http://www.pallab.net Pallab

    I had tried mmm. Not sure why I had uninstalled it though. It was quite some time back. I think the reason was that it didnt fit in with WindowBlinds themes.

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    SankarAnand: CCleaner is amazing! I wonder why I missed to try this out.
    Pallab: Thanks for sharing your views :)

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com Nirmal

    Previously I used to install each and every software which I downloaded, but now stopped doing that. :D
    BTW stumbled.

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    Thanks for the stumble, Nirmal :)

  • http://www.pallab.net Pallab

    CCleaner can clean help in organising context menu?
    I didnt know that.

  • http://techie-buzz.com Techie Buzz

    Nice Find, the menus keep on getting bigger and bigger when you add softwares. Using this I can clean up stuff I don’t want or arrange them properly.

  • http://www.pallab.net/2007/06/07/link-love-9th-june-2007/ Link Love – 9th June 2007 » Not Just Another Blog

    [...] Many softwares unneccesarily add their own entries to the context menu thus making it slow to load and cluttered. Shankar wrote about three free utilties that can clean up your context menu is a safe and hassle free way. [...]

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    Pallab: CCleaner doesn’t actually have the option to clean context menus. But it’s a great tool for keeping your system clean and nifty.
    Techie Buzz: I’m glad you liked it :)

  • http://technixupdate.com abhishek bhatnagar

    well i have used both context menu editor.and manager i prefer the latter…neways nice article.

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    Thanks, Abhishek

  • cwxwwwxdfvwwxwx

    well, hi admin adn people nice forum indeed. how’s life? hope it’s introduce branch ;)