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A lot of programs you install will add themselves to the right-click menu of your files and/or folders. Most times, you don’t have a choice and as a result your right-click menu can get very long with items you don’t even use. Fortunately, you can easily remove those unwanted menu items by editing the registry values. Editing the registry isn’t that difficult, but you have to know what you’re doing. So before we start, first make sure that you make a back-up of your registry, or otherwise messing with the registry means an instable system. There are two methods of removing the right click menu items, one for Files and one for Folders. Let’s start with Files!

For Files, the secret lies in the “context menu handlers” under the shellex subkey for “All Files” which, is located in the registry.To go to the registry, follow this steps:

1. Go to Start
2. Go to Run
3. Type: “Regedit” (Without the”) and then navigate your way to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

Click the the + sign next to the ContextMenuHandlers key, to expand it. Now you will see some of the programs that have added items to your right-click menu. Simply delete the program keys you don’t want. Simple isn’t it?! If deleting makes you uneasy, just export the key before deleting it, Or, instead of deleting the values, disable them. Simply double click the default value for the program on the right hand pane and rename the clsid value by placing a period or dash in front of it.

ie; - {b5eedee0-c06e-11cf-8c56-444553540000}

Then exit the registry, refresh, and right click a file to see if the item was removed from the menu.
Some programs - like WinZip or WinRar - will add several items to your right click menu but all of them will be removed by deleting or disabling their one context menu handler. Note that the above key only applies to the right click menu of files.

To remove entries from the right click context menu of folders, you need to navigate to the Folder and Drive keys:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

All you have to do is follow the same procedure as for Files - either disable or delete items you wish to remove!