How to "clean" contextual menus ?

sfleury said:

Hello
I noticed that along the years, the contextual menus became longer and longer - Most of the command displayed are almost useless and I would like to edit and clean them
Is that possible ? With a dedicated software or by Regedit ?
It seems that different appications have different menus - Is there a way to access them all or should it be done through the applicatiion itself ?

Thanks for any help Have a good day

You might want to try this...

ShellExView - Shell Extension Manager For Windows

That and Autoruns (free from MS) allow you to disable extensions - Autoruns may well list more than Shellexview.

Autoruns also offers a rt click, delete option.
I've not tried that myself, preferring to remove any via the relevant program on the rare occasion I do.

There is another option too... it is possible to hide context menu entries and only show them if you

SHIFT + rt click

I only know a way to do that via the registry.
Add menu items to SHIFT + right click menu on Windows - Super User

Good for rarely used ones.

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Another relevant tool is this: (which also allows adding custom items)
How to Customize the Right-Click Context Menu in Windows 11
which includes a cleaner with a delete option: