How to remove hugely long WinXP menu items from right click on JPEG

[Guest Donna Ohl]

How can I remove half the useless menus that show up when I right click on

a JPEG in Windows XP?

 

When I right click on a JPG, the menu items are so long that they require

scrolling both up (off screen) and down (off screen) in order to select

some of the menus (e.g., copy and delete).

 

How can I remove some of the JPG right-click WinXP menu items?

 

Donna

[Guest Donna Ohl]

Re: How to remove hugely long WinXP menu items from right click on JPEG

 

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:21:22 -0700, Donna Ohl wrote:

> How can I remove some of the JPG right-click WinXP menu items?

 

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

-------------------

- 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)

-------------------

- PGP Zip -> (sub menu)

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- Cut

- Copy

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- Create shortcut

- Delete

- Rename

-------------------

- Properties

-------------------

 

Given I don't need all forty of these items, how would I remove some of

them?

 

Donna

[Guest Ron Hunter]

Re: How to remove hugely long WinXP menu items from right click onJPEG

 

Re: How to remove hugely long WinXP menu items from right click onJPEG

 

Donna Ohl wrote:

> How can I remove half the useless menus that show up when I right click on

> a JPEG in Windows XP?

>

> When I right click on a JPG, the menu items are so long that they require

> scrolling both up (off screen) and down (off screen) in order to select

> some of the menus (e.g., copy and delete).

>

> How can I remove some of the JPG right-click WinXP menu items?

>

> Donna

 

Google for 'WinXP right-click menus', or "Windows XP context menus". I

am sure you can find out how to add, and delete items to that list.

[Guest VanguardLH]

Re: How to remove hugely long WinXP menu items from right click on JPEG

 

"Donna Ohl" <donna.ohl@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message

news:8z1Gj.24616$Ch6.23601@newssvr11.news.prodigy.net...

> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:21:22 -0700, Donna Ohl wrote:

>

>> How can I remove some of the JPG right-click WinXP menu items?

>

> 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

> -------------------

> - Rotate Clockwise

> - Rotate Counter Clockwise

> -------------------

> - Set as Desktop Background

> -------------------

> - Convert to Adobe PDF

> - Combine in Adobe Acrobat

> -------------------

> - Advanced File Security 3 -> (sub menu)

> - Scan filename.jpg

> -------------------

> - Add to filename.bca

> - Encyrypt by Public Key and Send

> -------------------

> - Edit Security...

> -------------------

> - <huge thumbnail photo>

> - 640x480, 24bpp, 48.45KB

> - Convert into -> (sub menu)

> - Set Wallpaper as -> (sub menu)

> - Options -> (sub menu)

> -------------------

> - IZArc -> (sub menu)

> -------------------

> - Open With -> (sub menu)

> -------------------

> - Quick Par -> (sub menu)

> - PowerISO -> (sub menu)

> -------------------

> - Photo Info

> -------------------

> - Add to Archive...

> - Add to "filename.rar"

> - Compress and Email...

> - Compress to "filename.rar" and Email

> -------------------

> - Send To -> (sub menu)

> -------------------

> - PGP Zip -> (sub menu)

> -------------------

> - Cut

> - Copy

> -------------------

> - Create shortcut

> - Delete

> - Rename

> -------------------

> - Properties

> -------------------

>

> 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

[Guest Donna Ohl]

Re: How to remove hugely long WinXP menu items from right click on JPEG

 

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:30:28 -0500, Ron Hunter wrote:

>> How can I remove some of the JPG right-click WinXP menu items?

> Google for 'WinXP right-click menus', or "Windows XP context menus". I

> am sure you can find out how to add, and delete items to that list.

 

The guys over on the freeware site suggested "Mmm FREE 2.0" so that makes

two possible GUI-based solutions (Nirsoft ShellExView being the other one).

 

Here's the writeup on Mmm FREE feeware ...

 

Mmm FREE. Configure Menu Context Menu Context-menu.

Every program these days seem to add their own items to the windows

right-click menu. This menu will after a while grow all out of

proportions because of the sheer number of items. Use this free, unique

utility to configure your windows menus. Remove menu-items you never

use. Put rarely used functions out on a sub-menu. Keep only those

functions you often use in a small, tidy base menu. Configuration is

very simple, just drag and drop the menu-items where you want them to

go. One of those...

Size: 847.5 KB License: Freeware

Platform: Windows XP

 

http://www.download32.com/mmm-free-i28347.html