Here, you can set what you will see in the right-click context menu of the desktop. Next you need to double click on the “ (Default)” string.ġ1. (On our system, it is the ‘ PaintDotNet‘)ġ0. Select the created key from the left pane. After that, copy the path mentioned in the “ Target:” box.ĩ. What you need to do is to right-click on the application icon on the desktop and click on “ Properties“.Ĩ. Again, right-click on the new key and then click on “ New>” and then on “ Key“.Ħ. Name the key as the application name which you want on the right-click context menu (We have named it “ PainDotNet” ).Ĥ. Again, right-click on the “ shell” key and then click on “ New>” and then on “ Key“.ģ. After opening the Registry Editor go to this location – HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shellĢ. You can also add an application shortcut to the right-click context menu of the desktop.ġ. Modify the right-click context menu on desktop You may find those missing keys in one of these locations – HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFileSystemObjects\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers It is quite possible that there are some extra shortcuts in the right-click context menus that are not showing up under the ‘ContextMenuHandlers’ section. If there are any warning message, just click on “ Yes“. Right-click on the particular application which you want to get rid of and click on “ Delete“. Go to this place on the left-hand side – HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\ģ. If prefixing the value data with a ‘-‘ doesn’t work out, you can consider deleting the key under the context handler header.ġ. Now, right-click and check if this is working out or not. Now, all you need to do to disable the particular application shortcut is to put a “ –” in front of the value data.Ĭlose the Registry Editor and refresh the desktop once. After that, double click on the “ (Default)” key on the right-hand side.Ħ. So, we have selected ‘7-Zip’ from the left-hand side. ( Example – We want to remove “ 7-Zip” from the right-click context menu. To disable certain applications in the context menu, you need to select the particular key on the left-hand side window. These are the keys of the application shortcuts in the right-click context menu.Ĥ.