Control Your Context Menu Items with ShellExView
Posted by: Barry Cleave in Portable Freeware, tags: Context Menu, Freeware, Independent Review, Portable Application, Portable Freeware, PortableApps, Windows, WIndows Vista, Windows XP
What’s This About?
ShellExView provides a detailed list of the shell extensions (in-process COM objects) that are used to display items in the Context Menu of Windows Explorer. These can then be individually disabled or enabled allowing you to have only those Context Menu Items that you really need.
Combined with a utility such as CMenuExtender which was reviewed here:
Create Your Own Explorer Context Menus with CMenuExtender
You can control your context menus to display only what you need and create commands to do what you want 
Why Would You Want It?
MS Windows provides many shell extensions as part of the OS. Also lots of programs add their own commands to the Explore context menu, Internet Explorer, etc. when they are installed to help with using the program. This makes the right click context menu in the system applications very useful for carrying out all sorts of operations and commands, however they can become cluttered with commands you never need or use. This can make it difficult to find what you want. With ShellExView you an disable the menus you don’t need. ShellExView does not remove the shell extensions it just disables them so that you can always enable anything you need to get back. This also means that you can experiment using ShellExView to see whether you are making the right choice without any fear or permanently loosing any functions.
What Does It Do - The Essentials?
Summary:
- Lists all Shell Extension Objects on the PC
- Allows Enabling or Disabling of the Extensions
- Allows Details to be Copied to text or HTML files
- Opens Windows Registry at the Selected Object Entry
- Marks “Suspicious” Extensions
- Column Sorting of Display
- Highlight & Sort on Enabled/Disable Items
For more details about Shell Extensions and what they do go to ShellExView
Pros: What’s Good?
Features & Benefits
- Freeware
- Good Options
- Portable Program
- Run from command line or use GUI
- Lots of “Help” information on website
- x64 version
- Language packs
- Command Line options
Cons:What’s Not So Good?
- No PC based Help
More About What it Does in Detail:
Go to Page 2 for details and screenshots
Go to Page 3 for ProReviewer Summary
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October 9th, 2008 at 6:32 pm - Edit
[...] MMM Free is a utility that runs in the background that automatically alters the Explorer context menu to a configuration that you can choose. MMM Free is a cut down version of a shareware product but it does a very good job of moving items that you use infrequently to a “Rarely Used” Submenu. It is a good alternative to using ShellExView which was reviewed earlier. Control Your Context Menu Items with ShellExView [...]
October 10th, 2008 at 6:42 am - Edit
I have to say Barry, you always find the things I am looking for, and many times I don’t even realize I am looking, there is so much crap on my “right click” menu now this will be perfect.
Thanks as always,
May 7th, 2009 at 4:52 pm - Edit
i want to say very thank you for this great informations. now i understand about it.
thank you.
May 18th, 2009 at 11:26 am - Edit
Cool.. i just know about thsi shellexview can control our context menu item.. really useful posting.. thanks you.
June 10th, 2009 at 5:28 pm - Edit
Just read this post. thx for sharin’
June 25th, 2009 at 8:43 am - Edit
you have done a great job
June 30th, 2009 at 8:19 pm - Edit
it’s a great post. thx.