Removing options from Context Menu

Help & Support
1

Hi,
I'd like to delete some RAR options from the Context Menu that I never use.
eg. Compress and Email
which is misery if chosen in error.

I'm aware that it can possibly be done via the FileTypes editor but have never seen anything on how to activate it.
Yes, I've spent hours in:

  • DO Help (which screens bear no relation to the real Preferences at all)
  • searching DO's 'context menu' via Google throws up a zillion posts that have nothing to do with my problem.
  • searching this site but the returned posts have topics that are meaningless for me.
    Sorry, but I cannot spend my life wading through all that.

Can you just give me simple instructions on how to delete any that applications dump into the context menu, making it necessary to scroll through a long list, that I do not need?

Thanks
:slight_smile:

2

Do you mean the Compress and Email item that comes from WinRAR?

You can turn that off in WinRAR under Options / Settings / Integration / Context menu items.

3

Ahhh, thanks Leo.
Fixed!
So glad to send a few of those to Hell.
I guess that's why no-one else seemed to have that problem with DO (as far as I could see) ... it wasn't really a DO problem at all.
:slight_smile:
But how about the "delete any [options] that [any other] applications dump into the context menu" bit?
Most programs seem to want to install a context menu option or three and we're not always given a choice whether it's done.
When I right-click a file (any file type) and a list comes up... is it possible to cull some of that list in DO or will the responsible program just put the deleted options back again?
If it is possible, can you tell me how to do that in simple terms?

Thanks for help.
:slight_smile:

4

It depends how the menu items were added, so it's best handled on a case-by-case basis. But you can remove some via Settings -> File Types, and others by either disabling their shell extensions (using a tool like ShellExView) or by telling Opus to whitelist/blacklist certain shell extensions via their CLSIDs (which are most easily found via ShellExView).

5

Ok, thanks Leo.
I've made notes of your reply.
I'll check those methods out as I need to whittle the Context Menu down again.
But I did check the Settings -> File Types before asking for help here and there's nothing there really.

Grateful for your time and advice.
I wish I had your knowledge, mate.
:slight_smile: