How to remove items from the "right-click" menu?

How can I configure the right-click menu in Windows 7?

• How can I remove/add custom items/shortcuts to the context menu (right-click menu) by modifying the Windows registry? I am not looking for a graphical tool like those listed in http://superuser.com/questions/209556/edit-right-click-context-menus-in-windows-7, I want to do it myself by changing the registry keys manually. So: How can I do this? Where I can find the values that Registry use to make this menu? How can I restore the default values if something went wrong?

• Answer:

  The registry entries you should specifically look at are: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell (for specific file types) HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers (also for specific file types) HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFileSystemObjects\ShellEx (for all context menus) HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell (for folders) HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers (also for folders) Remember to always backup your registry before editing it by going to File > Export... in the regedit.exe application. Or if you prefer to do it using an application (which apparently you don't but I'll put it in here anyway): You can use http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html and http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shell_menu_view.html to see a list of all current (and past, as long as the entries have not been removed) context menu items and disable or enable them from there. Source: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/how-to-clean-up-your-messy-windows-context-menu/