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in Windows (Vista), when viewing a folder, when right clicking on a item, there's the menu “Play with Windows Media Player”.

How to set it so such submenu does not show?

(not sure I want to uninstall Windows Media Player though)

I have no problem if modding Registry is required, just need to know where...

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I'm looking for the same thing. Strangely enough (is it really?), it does not seem to be hooked into the system in the usual manner (neither Sysinternals' Autoruns, nor Nirsoft's ShellExView, and not even Regedit can find it). I suspect that it might be part snuck into some other "general-purpose" module instead of its own DLL, thus making it hard to find. If (uh, no, when), I find it, I'll let you know. – Synetech Jan 19 '11 at 19:43
Nevermind, it was much easier than I thought. Unfortunately I wasted time by using Process Monitor to observe registry accesses instead of just searching the registry for the string. Duh. :) – Synetech Jan 19 '11 at 20:23
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The relevant entry occurs several times in the registry, but only one place needs to be removed to disable the context-menu entry. Further, the context-menu entry exists separately for different types of media files and folders, depending on whether it is audio, image, or video. Finally, there are separate entries to play the items in WMP and to to add them to the WMP playlist. This creates twelve permutations that need to be removed (actally, only ten because there doesn't seem to be entries for image files, only image folders).

Here's how to remove both commands from all three media types for both files and folders: Create a .reg file with the following content and run it.

REGEDIT4
;Remove "Play with Windows Media Player" context menu entries

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Audio\shell\Enqueue]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Audio\shell\Play]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Image\shell\Enqueue]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Image\shell\Play]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Video\shell\Enqueue]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Video\shell\Play]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\audio\shell\Enqueue]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\audio\shell\Play]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\video\shell\Enqueue]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\video\shell\Play]

Adding them back is much longer (below), so you may want to back them up.

HTH 

REGEDIT4
;Restore "Play with Windows Media Player" context menu entries

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\audio\shell\Enqueue]
@="&Add to Windows Media Player list"
"MUIVerb"=hex(2):40,25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,73,79,73,74,65,6d,33,32,5c,75,6e,72,65,67,6d,70,32,2e,65,78,65,2c,2d,39,38,30,30,00
"NeverDefault"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\audio\shell\Enqueue\command]
"DelegateExecute"="{45597c98-80f6-4549-84ff-752cf55e2d29}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\audio\shell\Play]
@="&Play with Windows Media Player"
"MUIVerb"=hex(2):40,25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,73,79,73,74,65,6d,33,32,5c,75,6e,72,65,67,6d,70,32,2e,65,78,65,2c,2d,39,38,30,31,00
"NeverDefault"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\audio\shell\Play\command]
"DelegateExecute"="{ed1d0fdf-4414-470a-a56d-cfb68623fc58}"



[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\video\shell\Enqueue]
@="&Add to Windows Media Player list"
"MUIVerb"=hex(2):40,25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,73,79,73,74,65,6d,33,32,5c,75,6e,72,65,67,6d,70,32,2e,65,78,65,2c,2d,39,38,30,30,00
"NeverDefault"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\video\shell\Enqueue\command]
"DelegateExecute"="{45597c98-80f6-4549-84ff-752cf55e2d29}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\video\shell\Play]
@="&Play with Windows Media Player"
"MUIVerb"=hex(2):40,25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,73,79,73,74,65,6d,33,32,5c,75,6e,72,65,67,6d,70,32,2e,65,78,65,2c,2d,39,38,30,31,00
"NeverDefault"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\video\shell\Play\command]
"DelegateExecute"="{ed1d0fdf-4414-470a-a56d-cfb68623fc58}"



[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Audio\shell\Enqueue]
@="&Add to Windows Media Player list"
"MUIVerb"=hex(2):40,25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,73,79,73,74,65,6d,33,32,5c,75,6e,72,65,67,6d,70,32,2e,65,78,65,2c,2d,39,38,30,30,00
"NeverDefault"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Audio\shell\Enqueue\command]
"DelegateExecute"="{45597c98-80f6-4549-84ff-752cf55e2d29}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Audio\shell\Play]
@="&Play with Windows Media Player"
"MUIVerb"=hex(2):40,25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,73,79,73,74,65,6d,33,32,5c,75,6e,72,65,67,6d,70,32,2e,65,78,65,2c,2d,39,38,30,31,00
"NeverDefault"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Audio\shell\Play\command]
"DelegateExecute"="{ed1d0fdf-4414-470a-a56d-cfb68623fc58}"



[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Image\shell\Enqueue]
@="&Add to Windows Media Player list"
"MUIVerb"=hex(2):40,25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,73,79,73,74,65,6d,33,32,5c,75,6e,72,65,67,6d,70,32,2e,65,78,65,2c,2d,39,38,30,30,00
"NeverDefault"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Image\shell\Enqueue\command]
"DelegateExecute"="{45597c98-80f6-4549-84ff-752cf55e2d29}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Image\shell\Play]
@="&Play with Windows Media Player"
"MUIVerb"=hex(2):40,25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,73,79,73,74,65,6d,33,32,5c,75,6e,72,65,67,6d,70,32,2e,65,78,65,2c,2d,39,38,30,31,00
"NeverDefault"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Image\shell\Play\command]
"DelegateExecute"="{ed1d0fdf-4414-470a-a56d-cfb68623fc58}"



[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Video\shell\Enqueue]
@="&Add to Windows Media Player list"
"MUIVerb"=hex(2):40,25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,73,79,73,74,65,6d,33,32,5c,75,6e,72,65,67,6d,70,32,2e,65,78,65,2c,2d,39,38,30,30,00
"NeverDefault"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Video\shell\Enqueue\command]
"DelegateExecute"="{45597c98-80f6-4549-84ff-752cf55e2d29}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Video\shell\Play]
@="&Play with Windows Media Player"
"MUIVerb"=hex(2):40,25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,73,79,73,74,65,6d,33,32,5c,75,6e,72,65,67,6d,70,32,2e,65,78,65,2c,2d,39,38,30,31,00
"NeverDefault"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Video\shell\Play\command]
"DelegateExecute"="{ed1d0fdf-4414-470a-a56d-cfb68623fc58}"
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super. thanks. that did it. – Xah Lee Jan 20 '11 at 12:41
Someone didn't think so. :-| – Synetech Jan 27 '11 at 2:19
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Just run:

regsvr32 /u wmpshell.dll

This will unregister the Windows Media Player shell extension and thus remove the Play with WMP entry.

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Care to explain how this works @rootslan.ru? – Ivo Flipse♦ Feb 19 '11 at 12:34
I already tried that and it didn’t work. It only removes entries from HKCR\CLSID, not the relevant SystemFileAssociations entries. – Synetech Feb 19 '11 at 20:16
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Don't forget to remove 

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Audio\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\WMPShopMusic

To get rid of "Shop for Music Online" in Audio Directory context menus.

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This is not a forum, answers are not always listed in the same order. – Tom Wijsman Nov 6 '11 at 2:00
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