Trisha asks: I use Internet Explorer 8 to browse various websites. It’s a superb browser but whenever I use right click to access the menu items, I encounter a cluttered list of way too many items of absolutely no use to me. This wasn’t the case when I got my laptop reformatted. How do I remove right click menu items in Internet Explorer 8?
Modern browsers have made it easier for us to surf the web. Most of the advanced browsers integrate the important options like Print , Refresh , View Source , Back , Forward ,Select and others in the right click menu items. This is the one feature I love with all my browsers. However with Internet Explorer it becomes a drawback too.
The problem with the world’s most used browser – Internet Explorer is that sometimes when you install third party software, the software may infest the menu items with its own entries. This makes the list longer and longer and hard to use to. This is the problem that users like Trisha are facing.
Here is a complete step by step guide on how to remove external right click menu items in Internet Explorer.
Step 1: Press Windows Key+ R to open Run command box.
Step 2: Type regedit and hit enter. Click Yes on User Access Control pop up if you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7.
Step 3: Navigate to the following key.
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMenuExt
Step 4: You will see many sub-keys in the MenuExt registry branch. Each of these represents the right click menu items in Internet Explorer. The names of folders are generally same or are similar to the menu entry and are easily identifiable.
To remove the menu items, just right click on the corresponding registry keys, and select Delete.
Step 5 : Restart your Internet Explorer browser to see the results.
With this method you will be able to remove all the entries which were infested by the third party software in your Internet Explorer, however you won’t be able to remove any of the default items from the right click menu items.