Windows cleanup: how to remove redundant options in the right-click menu

People who use the WINDOWS system may encounter situations. After uninstalling some software safely, there are often unwanted items in the right-click menu that need to be deleted. But how do you remove the extra options in these right-click menus?

After research, we found that these legacy projects are generally stored in "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT * shellexContextMenuHandlers; if it is only valid for the folder, it is stored in "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryshell and "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryshellexContextMenuHandlers, sometimes in" HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTFoldershell and “HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTFoldershellexContextMenuHandlers are also available, delete them after you find them.

What if I don't want the right-click menu to display? For example, to prevent right-clicking “ start pop-up menu. Under “HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer”, create a new key value “NoTrayContextMenu” and assign it to “ld1;1” so that the shortcut menu will not appear when you right click on the “Start” button.

There is also a method for all right-click menus, you can use the registry editing tool regedit to open HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerDiscardablePostSetupShellNew to find unnecessary deletion.