Manage the context-menu entries for files, folders, drives and Namespace objects

When you right-click a folder, you'll see some context-menu entries out of which some may be invalid or unwanted. For instance, when you uninstall a software, the corresponding entries may not be removed sometimes.you may have to manually delete the unnecessary entries from the following locations

Note:
(HKCR refers to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT)
(Backup the Registry first)

Directory
The context-menu entries for Directories is built from these locations in the registry. The same applies for the Start button in the Taskbar



[HKCR\Folder\Shell\]
[HKCR\Folder\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers\]
[HKCR\Directory\Shell\]
[HKCR\Directory\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers\]
[HKCR\AllFilesystemObjects\shell\]
[HKCR \ AllFilesystemObjects \ shellex \ ContextMenuHandlers\]

Additional Context Menu locations based on the FolderType:
For Music folders, the context menu loads from this additional location:

[HKCR\SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Audio\shell\]
[HKCR\SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Audio\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\]

For Video folders

[HKCR\SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Video\shell\]
[HKCR\SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Video\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\]

For Picture folders

[HKCR\SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Image\shell\]
[HKCR\SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Image\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\]

Drives

To remove the context-menu entries for Drives, the following are the paths:[HKCR\Drive\Shell\][HKCR\Folder\Shell\][HKCR\Drive\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers\][HKCR\Folder\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers\]

Namespace objects
To remove the context-menu entries for Namespace icons (My Computer, Recycle Bin etc), check here:[HKCR\Folder\Shell\][HKCR\Folder\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers\][HKCR\CLSID\{Namespace-CLSID}\shell\][HKCR\CLSID\{Namespace-CLSID}\ shellex \ ContextMenuHandlers\]
Example - For My Computer the key would be:[HKCR\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\]

Files
The context-menu entries for Files are built from the following registry locations:[HKCR\\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\][HKCR \*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\][HKCR\*\shell\][HKCR\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\]

Example: For Shortcuts (.lnk files), the context-menu is built from:
[HKCR\lnkfile\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\][HKCR\exefile\shell\][HKCR\exefile\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\][HKCR\AllFilesystemObjects\shell\][HKCR\*\shell\][HKCR\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\][HKCR\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\]