Add, Edit, Remove items from Internet Explorer Context Menu (RegEdit)

Add, Edit, Remove items from Internet Explorer Context Menu 

Over a period of time, like it may happen with File Explorer, many items may get added to the context menu of Internet Explorer too. While you may use some, there may be some which you may have just no use for. Having a large Internet Explorer Context Menu, can make it slow and clumsy and look cluttered.

If you wish to edit or remove unwanted entries from the Internet Explorer right-click context menu, read this article.

Internet Explorer context menu

Remove items from Internet Explorer Context Menu

1] First off all, you can open Internet Explorer > Settings > Manage Addons. Here disable the addons you don’t need. You may find that the disabled addons also remove their respective context menu items. Also click on Accelerators and disable the Accelerators you don’t need. This step too will disable the respective context menu items.

ie-addons-context-menu

2] You can also remove the items from the Windows Registry. But before that create a system restore point first and/or back up the Registry.

Next press Win+R in combination to bring up the registry editor. In it type ‘regedit’ and hit Enter.

Regedit

Then, navigate to the following key,

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt

Once you’re there, right-click on the key and you can choose what to edit or remove. Do be careful.

Once done, you will need to restart the browser and check the context menu to find unwanted options removed from it. Using this method one can remove links from Internet Explorer right-click context menu, added by 3rd party software.



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