Removing Cut/Copy/Delete from contextual menu

Basically title, I've come very close to deleting them but I'm stuck at (what I believe is) the last step.

The file which contains the hard coded contextual menu items is located at C:\Windows\System32\en-US\shell32.dll.mui
I've copied the file, and with resource hacker I deleted the relevant data.



Now comes the hard part. This original file is always in use, I cannot easily replace it.


I've tried to replace it on system startup with a .bat file using task scheduling and it would not go through. Someone told me I should boot from another drive with a separate operating system and edit the system32 files that way. It seems like a logical answer, but that is not something I can afford to do at the moment. It was possible in the past to replace files in use but I don't think it is anymore.

I don't know much about sysadmin so its very possible that I'm not as close as I think I am but I would be very grateful for any information on how I could finish this tweak!

The biggest question is why. Those three are more widely used than anything rlse.

bro67 said:

The biggest question is why. Those three are more widely used than anything rlse.

Personally never use the contextual menu for them. Always used keyboard shortcuts

dalchina said:

Please have a look at this where Phrab apparently documents a way,

Rearranging the context menu (right click)

This question has been asked before- often worth searching tenforums and using it as a recource.

Thank youuuu. This is exactly what I needed! I'll be sure to use the search here instead. I was spending time using google and not finding anything.


Isn't it beautiful

I ran into the same problem Phrab had where the properties option was not working as intended. I was able to return its functionality though by adding it back like this:


As a side note for anyone who wants to do this, I found that I had to restart my system every time I went to replace the file. Make sure you have rights to the file, and folder if needed. If you get the error "Unable to remove the file to be replaced" in ReplaceThis, it means something is wrong and you probably have to check the rights and/or restart your system. Additionally I found the shell32.dll.mui file present in SysWOW64 but turns out that I did not have to edit this file at all for it to work.

Thanks again to Dalchina, Phrab.