Guest kirk Posted July 11, 2007 Posted July 11, 2007 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
Guest Elmo Posted July 11, 2007 Posted July 11, 2007 Re: get rid of shortcuts that appear when you right click on START kirk wrote: > 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 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". -- Joe =o)
Guest Zilbandy Posted July 11, 2007 Posted July 11, 2007 Re: get rid of shortcuts that appear when you right click on START On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:49:26 -0400, Elmo <elmogeek@iglou.invalid> wrote: >> 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 >Turn off Recent Documents. That's not what he's talking about. -- Zilbandy
Guest Malke Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 Re: get rid of shortcuts that appear when you right click on START Zilbandy wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:49:26 -0400, Elmo <elmogeek@iglou.invalid> > wrote: > >>> 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 > >> Turn off Recent Documents. > > That's not what he's talking about. > 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 -- Elephant Boy Computers http://www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
Guest RalfG Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 Re: get rid of shortcuts that appear when you right click on START 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" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:e4fTgkBxHHA.1204@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Zilbandy wrote: >> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:49:26 -0400, Elmo <elmogeek@iglou.invalid> >> wrote: >> >>>> 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 >> >>> Turn off Recent Documents. >> >> That's not what he's talking about. >> > > 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 > -- > Elephant Boy Computers > http://www.elephantboycomputers.com > "Don't Panic!" > MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
Guest kirk Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 Re: get rid of shortcuts that appear when you right click on START "Malke" wrote: > Zilbandy wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:49:26 -0400, Elmo <elmogeek@iglou.invalid> > > wrote: > > > >>> 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 > > > >> Turn off Recent Documents. > > > > That's not what he's talking about. > > > > 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 > -- > Elephant Boy Computers > http://www.elephantboycomputers.com > "Don't Panic!" > MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User > shexview did the trick. Thank you! BTW what is the correct terminoloy for this Right click menu on the start button?
Guest Malke Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 Re: get rid of shortcuts that appear when you right click on START kirk wrote: > shexview did the trick. Thank you! > BTW what is the correct terminoloy for this Right click menu on the start > button? 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 -- Elephant Boy Computers http://www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
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