hi .. can anyone please tell me how i can edit the pop up menu that appears on the desktop after an item is highlighted then right button clicked with the mouse ? .... i'm sure there must be a simple answer to this but yours truly has run out of patience going round in circles trying to find it .... thanks in advance.

Depends on what you are trying to do... Are you trying to remove an entry? Or add an entry? To what part of the menu? The send to?

.. yep, to be more specific i want to include Nortons shredder in the popup ... ie a 'send document to shredder' type option ;-). i'm sure i had something similar in the past (way back) but now its gone. At the moment i've got things like 'scan for virus', 'create shortcut' etc...i just want to be able to choose the options myself... is there a way to do this newgrl ?

if you have norton sherreder installed then it would have created an entry into popup menu into the sendto menu-item.just right click any item then send to norton sherreder.Or you can enable this option from settting of that program

You can put anything you want in the Send To folder. Double click on My Computer. At the top click on Tools>>folder options. Go to the view tab. Put a dot in Show Hidden files and folders. Click apply>>ok. Now... Browse to c:\windows In there you will see a file called Send To. Open it. Leave it open and go to start>>programs>>Nortons shreder. Right click and choose copy. Go back to the Send to folder and right click in a white space and choose Paste. Now when you right click on something and hold your mouse over Send To, Nortons shreder ought to be there.

newgrl, you're a genius ... very precise.! I must admit i enjoyed that little experience enough to compose a little note of thanks to you on my wordprocessor ... but alas, I'd say it would be well and truly unrecoverable by now ..... ;-)