get rid of shortcuts that appear when you right click on START

[kirk]

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

 

[Elmo]

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".

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[Zilbandy]

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.

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Zilbandy

 

[Malke]

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
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[RalfG]

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
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

 

[kirk]

"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
> 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?

 

[Malke]

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
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