Windows 7 Shift-Right-Click Context Menus not Working Anymore

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2014-01
  • Kryten

    I've recently discovered that my Windows 7 Shift-Right-Click Context Menu in Explorer doesn't work any more. Whenever I try to Shift-Right-Click, nothing happens. This is on folders, files and the Taskbar. Normal Right-Clicks work fine. I thought it might a Shell Extension, so I uninstalled the only two custom shell extensions I have (Link Shell Extension and Hash Check Shell Extension), but I still can't get the Shift-Right-Click Context Menus working. The problem is that I don't know when it stopped working, so I'm not sure if there was maybe a update or maybe a application I installed that caused this...

    Thanks

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  • Kryten

    OK, figured it out: turns out it wasn't a shell extension. It was the How to Fake Back and Forward Buttons With a Three-button Mouse from How-To-Geek...


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  • Lucas McCoy

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    So when I right-click a file in Explorer I have a bunch of added menu items.

    There are a few I would like to keep however. How can I remove the ones that I want to?


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  • Tom Wijsman

    You can do that with ShellExView; note that this file is clean, Sophos gives a false positive...

    ShellExView screenshot

    An alternative is to use Autoruns which allows you to clean up the same and a lot more...

  • BloodPhilia

    Most programs that nest in the context menu offer an option of removing that. Usually found in the program's properties as something like "Add context menu option".

    Just found this from http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article02-026:

    • Select Folder Options from the Tools menu in My Computer or Explorer, and click the File Types tab.
    • Highlight the desired file type, and click Advanced.
    • Here, you can specify a new name for this file type (to be listed in the type column in Explorer), as well as the default icon for files of this type.
    • In the box entitled Actions, is a list of the customizable context menu items. The bold item is the default (the action carried out when you double-click on a file of this type).
    • You can add new items, change the default action, and remove unwanted items here. For new items, simply specify the program with which you want the action caried out.

    Might be worth a try also.

  • Moab

    Try Menu Maid, easier to use than ShellExView for this sort of thing.

    http://www.sdsoftware.org/software/menumaid/

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