Find reference to context menu items in Windows 8

Question

So I got the famous issue with Windows 8 context menu items. I've tried manually, with CCleaner, With Glary utility 3. And I still have some issues.

Here is an example for a right click on a .jpg:

For the .jpg I can't seem to find any associations. Here is a SS from regedit HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT:

Answer 1

The way the context-menus work is (simplified) like this:

You look in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT for your file-extension (i.e. .jpg). It will contain a string value in (Default).

Sometimes you have all the information under this key. If not then you need to look up the value of (Default) in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (i.e. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/jpegfile).

There it will have all the context-entries you're looking for. You can edit them there.

Answer 2

Try this

Open Registry Editor

Now navigate to this directory:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

Delete every folder in that directory except "New Folder"

Now Close the reg editor and see if it works