This topic appears to have been touched on before by others, but after reading them I'm still unable to make any headway resolving my issue: When I right-click on a file (regardless of what file type it is), I want to remove many of the unnecessary items on the list of possible available actions th…

[image] Tip: Organise and Speed-Up Context Menus chequered_flagTutorials Tips to rearrange the context menus you see when right-clicking files. There are a few ways you can tackle the problem, depending on how much you want to hide/show. (Re-written Nov 2023.…

this page on in the pref panel is good place to start Preferences / Miscellaneous / Shell Extensions [image]

Thank you xavierarmand and Leo! Of the 17 or so items in the Context Menu, I was able to find only 2 and then remove them. I am unable to find the other 15 items in Preferences / Miscellaneous / Shell Extensions. Here are the items I want to remove but cannot find: Open in Directory Opus Open i…

yup! many of those are coming from windows shell and not dopus, i have to do this after every windows reinstall. LOL check the specific softwares' settings\prefs to remove shell\context menu integration. if the software doesn't give you the option from its own settings this tool can over override …

and this is another decent freebie for cleaning up the context menu coming from windows, and has a few useful tools you can add as well, (don't get carried away with adding, thou, there's too much to add) [image] Easy Context Menu v1.6 Easy Context Menu enables you to add a variety of …

Have you tried the guide I linked to above? Hiding everything (unless Shift is held down) and then adding back the few items you want is probably the easiest way to do things, if you want to remove most items and only see a few. The guide explains how to do that (among other options). The two menu…

Thank you, Leo and xavierarmand. I used both of your methods to remove at least 50% of the needless context menu garbage. There are a few remaining items that I can't seem to remove, but that's OK. Thanks again for all the help!

You're welcome. now that you've got it clean up, as your learn dopus awesome command line functionality you can start adding your own items. LOL. from the file types window you can add context menu items to specific files types [image] such as this only shows up on images... [image] and I've…

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Leo June 29, 2024, 11:28pm 2