How to edit the right-click context menu for some third-party applications in Windows 10

Right-click on a folder or file in Windows 10 File Explorer will triggers a context menu with an array of Windows applications, including some from third-party applications. When more apps is being installed, this menu will become cluttered with a lengthy list of entries. Many of these are applications that may never be used and it will make the menu more difficult to navigate.

This article will edit the context menu for WinZip, WinRar, DropBox and PDFCreator.

1.    WinZip

https://kb.corel.com/en/129410

WinZip Pro 27.0 when install will automatically install some utilities or applets together. Like WinZip Image Manager, WinZip PDF Express and WinZip SafeShare. To disable those applets in the existing installation one can use the registry editor. 

Start Registry Editor, "RegEdit.exe", in Windows. In the left pane, browse to and click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Nico Mak Computing\WinZip\Policies.

Locate the policies that you want to disable from the list below: 

• DISABLEIMGUTIL: Specifies if WinZip Image Manager is available or not.
• DISABLEPDFUTIL: Specifies if WinZip PDF Express is available or not.
• DISABLESBKUPUTIL: Specifies if WinZip Secure Backup is available or not.
• DISABLEDIPUS: Controls updates for applets.
• ADDDESKTOPICON: Lets you add a desktop icon (applies to WinZip and the applets).
• ADDFILEASSOCIATION: Provides options for file format associations and the Open With menu.
• ADDSTARTMENU: Lets you add the applets to the Start menu (applies to WinZip and the applets).
• INSTALLBGDD: Prevents the duplicate file finder from being installed.
• DISABLESHAREA: Disables WinZip SafeShare.

Disable the policies by double-clicking on each one and changing its value to 1.

Here i change the value to 1 on DISABLEIMGUTIL (Image Manager), DISABLEPDFUTIL (PDF Express) and DISABLESHAREA (SafeShare).

Finally close the Registry Editor.

2.    WinRar

https://www.intowindows.com/how-to-remove-unnecessary-winrar-items-from-context-menu/#:~:text=Step%202%3A%20Once%20WinRAR%20is,That's%20it!

When you install WinRar, it adds the following items to the context menu:

# Extract files

# Extract here

# Extract to <folder\>

# Extract here

# Extract each archive to separate folder

# Extract each archive to separate folder

# Open with WinRar (for SFX archive)

# Add to archive

# Add to <archive name>

# Compress to <archive name> and email

# Compress and email

When installing WinRar for the 1st time, it will offer context menu item option to be added towards the end of installation.

But if you already have installed WinRar, use the settings on the options tab of WinRar program to remove those entries.

Open WinRar software.

Click options tab and then click settings to open setting dialog.

Switch to the integration tab and then click contect menu items.

Now uncheck the items that you don't want to see in the context menu and finally click OK button to complete the changes.

Beside disable the context items you can also use cascading context menu. Goes back to the integration tab and enable cascaded context menus.

 

3.    DropBox

https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-ideas/Add-an-option-to-remove-Dropbox-items-from-the-desktop-context/idi-p/109723/page/5#comments

DropBox has added cluttered context menu in recent versions like 9 items which is too many. Till now they are not even prepare to add cascading menu yet. 😢

In the meantime, short windows 10 fix (thanks to @Laurence D.2 above)---

 

1. Open registry editor (search, regedit)

2. Paste in the registry editor address bar:  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\DropboxExt

3. Right-click the key in that folder, rename the value.  That removes all dropbox entries from context menu.

(You can export the folder by right-clicking it before and after your changes, if you wish, you can change it back anytime and the context menu entries will appear again)

4.    PDFCreator

https://www.sebastian-segerer.de/post/remove-items-from-context-menu/

There is a suggestion to remove the context menu in PDFCreator software. But it doesn't work.

No solution has been found yet.

New context menu

Now the context menu is much more better than before.