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Name: Comp01
Date: August 14, 2007 at 19:05:53 Pacific
OS: Windows XP Pro, SP2
CPU/Ram: 3.0Ghz Celeron/1024MB
Product: Me.
Comment:

I have an annoying glitch with XP recently, for some reason on my right-click context menu I have 2 entries for multiple things (my anti-virus, etc) heres an example image http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/... any way to fix this? I haven't reinstalled these programs or anything, so I don't know, its annoying though. any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.



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Name: Comp01
Date: August 14, 2007 at 19:34:41 Pacific
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nevermind, somehow I ended up with an extra context handler for .lnk files, no idea how it got there but I deleted and now its gone.


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Response Number 2
Name: Comp01
Date: August 14, 2007 at 19:39:35 Pacific
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Nevermind, still have the problem, grr, so any help?


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Response Number 3
Name: Comp01
Date: August 14, 2007 at 19:39:54 Pacific
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Its only doubled up on .lnk files if that helps ...


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Response Number 4
Name: californiakid
Date: August 15, 2007 at 08:25:35 Pacific
Reply:

I use Context Menu Editor to remove unwanted entries.
Plenty of free download sites for this.

I guess if you want to edit the registry manually, I could tell you where context menu handlers are located, but it's much easier to use a program.


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