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IASledder

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July 29th, 2004 17:00

Recycle Bin

No biggy, but when I right click properties  on the RB the pop-up shows a choice: "Open with Ulead Photo Explorer". Not a problem but can't find a way to delete this choice, has no value to me. Thanks for advice.
  • JRosenfeld

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    Posted July 29th, 2004 17:00

    If you get that also when right clicking on any folder in Windows Explorer, it is a context menu (=right click menu) extension, presumably added by your Ulead photo software. You can remove it (from all folders) by deleting the corresponding key in the registry. Click start, run, type regedit, click OK. In the left pane of regedit, navigate, by clicking on the + es, to

    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell

    click on the + next to the shell folder to open the branch below it. There should be a key (folder icon) 'open with Ulead Photo Explorer'

    If you delete that key (right click on it, click delete), the item will no longer appear.

    For safety, or in case you might want it back some other time, left click on the key, file menu, export, call the file what you like, with .reg extension, save where you want it. Then, if you made a mistake or want it back, double clicking on the file you saved will merge the entry bck into the registry.

    If you do want that right click ability on some folders (presumably the ones with your pics), I don't know of a way to have it only appear on some folders and not others such as recycle bin. AFAIK, it's all or none.

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    Posted July 29th, 2004 18:00

    I find under shell; open and explore as subtitles, but nothing about Ulead
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    Posted July 29th, 2004 22:00

    That's where the the context menu extensions for folders usually are, but maybe the Ulead software puts it somewhere else (it's got to be somewhere). Try to find the entry in regedit as follows. Highlight My computer (top of tree in left pane), Edit menu, click find; type the string that shows in your right click menu, make sure the three look at boxes are checked. If you find an entry, please post its location. press F3 to continue the search.
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    Posted July 29th, 2004 23:00

    Also found under HKEY_Current_User and HKEY_Local_Machine

  • IASledder

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    Posted July 29th, 2004 23:00

    Okay I found it. Would post a jpg showing location, but guess that feature is not available.  So: HKEY_Classes_Root

                                           Folder

                                              Defaulticon

                                              Shell

                                                    Explore

                                                    Open

                                                    Open with unlead explorer

                                                         Command

    Now do what?                                                  

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    Posted July 30th, 2004 00:00

    OK glad you found it, that's where I indicated it should be HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\
    In the left pane of regedit, just right click on the subkey (folder icon) named 'Open with unlead explorer', click delete. Be sure not to delete the other subkeys (folder icons) 'Open'  and 'explore' under Shell. Close regedit.

    As I said in my previous post, you can first left click on it, filemenu, export, etc. to save the entry in case you want it back later.

    The other entries should be deleted automatically when you delete the one in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, but after deleting the first one, you could just check whether the item has gone from your right click menu, if not look for the other two entries again in regedit and delete them if still there.

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    Posted July 30th, 2004 01:00

    That worked, thank you.
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    Posted July 30th, 2004 13:00

    Great. By the way, if you want to post the path to a key name, instead of the list you made in your previous post, if you right click on a key, click copy key name, it puts the string on your clipboard so you can paste it to your message. Example:

    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open

    Saves space :)