Hi all; I've been searching to no avail. Anyone no a way to remove yahoo from context menus. I use the messenger and companion toolbar. I've looked into the registry with no luck. The entries are like these. "IM this link to a friend." "Add this link to my Yahoo! Bookmarks." "Email this page to a Friend" "Search the Web for..." highlighted text. I don't like extra context menu items. I have looked in the usuall registry areas. I prefer to learn how to it manually. I already checked TweakUI. I know about Context Menu Editor 1.0 If there are any Yahoo users out there I would appreciate any feed back; RandyL

Running ME you will have to edit the registry. Scroll down page to appropriate section for detailed step by step directions. Restrict Context Menu Additions. smittee

Hi smittee; Thanks for the reply. I've looked into the registry everywhere I thought it could be found. PCWorld is a great site to find answers. Unfortunately I can't seem to find the correct ContextMenuHandlers for the added Yahoo entries. There are a number of alphanumeric keys which I can't identify as being associated with anything. Including some in the yahoo software registry. Googleing the keys came up with no results. So I'm still at a loss as to which keys need to be deleted. I suspect only the latest version(s) of Yahoo messenger or the companion toolbar added this. Perhaps that's why the lack of information so far. I'm not afraid to edit the registry. I have before. But I can't seem to find out how to do this one. But I appreciate your reply. Thank you; RandyL

RandyL Sorry that didn't help. Try reading this thread, particularly near bottom and see if it helps. I do not use Yahoo Messenger myself so treat this FWIW. Remove Yahoo but run Messenger GL smittee

Hi again smittee; Good job. I have partial success. I commend your search skills. I no longer have the "IM this link to a friend" in the context menu when I right click a WEB link. The registry path is as follows. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/CLASSES/CLSID I deleted the {E5D12C4E-7B4F-11D3-B5C9-0050045C3C96} Key. I deleted the same Key in other places but it had no noticable changes so I put them back. The "Email this page to a Friend" entry in the same context menu is set to my email client and not to Yahoo mail. That's OK. I still have the "Add this link to my Yahoo! Bookmarks" in the same context menu. And I still have the "Search the Web for" in a different context menu when I right click highlighted text. I am extremely pleased with the results so far. I've been looking into this for quite some time. Thanks so much for helping me with this. I'll post back if I figure out the rest of this. Feel free to do the same. Again, a big thanks; RandyL