Editing the Microsoft Security Essentials context-menu

Question

As all MSE users would know, the context-menu item that it adds to Explorer is really long, with one whole sentence "Scan with Microsoft Security Essentials...". Is there a way to edit this and shorten it?

I figured out the the file shellext.dll is responsible for registering the context menu. I used ResEdit to edit the DLL and changed the string table entry from Scan with ($BrandName) to Scan with MSE. But it still won't change. I've also tried de-registering the DLL and then registering it again. No luck!

Any ideas? Or am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

I was able to successfully rename the MSE context-menu entry by editing:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Client\en-us\shellext.dll.mui"

The change took effect once I logged out and then logged back in.

Answer 2

You could try both nirsoft's ShellExView and ShellMenuView. If you don't like using apps for this, you could check out this article.