Standard warning: Registry Editor is a powerful tool and misusing it can render your system unstable or even inoperable. We’ll get to the easier tools a bit later, but we think it helps when using those tools to understand how this stuff is handled in the Registry. If you want to clean things up the truly geeky way, you can do from Registry Editor without the need for third-party software.
The Hard Way: Remove Items from the Context Menu by Editing the Registry We’ll also point you toward how to add some more useful commands. Without too much effort, you can take your context menu from being cluttered and only mostly useful… It sometimes seems like every app is fighting for a piece of your context menu and most of us don’t even use half of them. We’re going to show you how you can remove items by editing your Registry, as well as an easier cleanup method using a couple of free third-party apps. Windows includes a bunch of options in that context menu by default, and that list grows as you install more apps. Want to get rid of the cruft you don’t use, and add some actually useful items to the context menu? You can.
If you’ve ever found yourself right-clicking on something and wondering where all that junk came from, you’re not alone.
