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.I have many entries in my Right-Click menu that are totally superfluous and I have tried totally unsuccessfuly to remove and replace with the items I want. I have tried editing through HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (the entries go on for ever) and various software programmes but I find them too arcane. Nothing seems to work, is there a simple way to accomplish this for an elderley non-geek?
Thank you
Peter
Both ShellMenuView and ShellExView work with Windows 10.
Here’s them both running in Win 10 1903:
Just make sure you download the right ‘bitness’ to match your system, i.e. 64-bit or – less likely – 32-bit.
What entries are you trying to remove?
Hope this helps…
Thank you Alex, I must be doing something wrong. I am inclding a shot of my Registry Editing so you can coach me along.
Did you restart your computer?
Yes Kirsty.
You appear to want to add items to the Open with context menu.
If you r/click on an image file that PSP can handle > Open With > and PSP 2020 hasn’t registered itself to automatically appear in that menu, you can click Choose another app at the bottom of that menu. You may need to scroll down.
If PSP still isn’t there to select, scroll to the btm of the menu and click More apps.
If PSP still isn’t showing to select, again scroll down to the btm of that menu and click Look for another app on the PC.
Navigate to Program Files (not program Files (x86) ) > Corel > Corel PaintShop Pro 2020 (64-Bit) > Corel PaintShop Pro (.exe) > Select > Open.
That will open PSP and PSP ‘should’ then be remembered and placed in the Open with menu for future use.
This unfortunately it doesn’t always happen for various reasons and an easy way to add PSP to the Registry is to use a dedicated program to do it for you. This saves you manually raking through the Registry yourself.
I use Openwithadd which is an old program created for XP/Vista but works in Windows 10 (1903).
You can download it from here: https://www.winhelponline.com/xp/openwithadd.htm
Thank you Moonshine for your suggestions. Unfortunately, as you will see from the screen capture I have none of the choices you suggest.
OpenWithAdd worked a treat, thank you Moonshine. I know I am asking too much but how do I get rid of all the entries that I don’t want? Is there another programme that works as well as OpenWithAdd?
It looks like you are using Windows 7 in the above image. My instructions/images are from W10 (1903).
However, it’s possible to remove some entries from the Open With menu by using a program from nirsoft called OpenWithView.
It’s located on this page, ⅔ of the way down:
https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/open_with_view.html
Once opened, locate the entries you want to remove, then r/click them and opt to disable.
Re-enabling is the reverse of the above.
Right click an image file and check your Open With menu to see if your choices have been removed.
To repeat – not all entries can be removed by this method.
Click the image below to see a short video of OpenWithView at work. I have remove 2 entries from the menu.
Thank you again Moonshine. My File Manager is Directory Opus, maybe that gives it a Win 7 appearance? I used your suggestion ‘OpenWithView’ and disabled the inPixio entries (see attach) and rebooted. I then tried the Open With facility but all the entries remained the same (see attach)
Maybe there is somthing wrong with my PC or I’m not smart enough to be a half-wit.
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