{"id":679,"date":"2008-09-26T11:28:25","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T05:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=679"},"modified":"2019-05-12T03:02:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T03:02:17","slug":"clean-up-the-right-click-menu-in-internet-explorer-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/clean-up-the-right-click-menu-in-internet-explorer-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean Up the Right-Click Menu in Internet Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The right-click menu in Internet Explorer may get cluttered up when you install download managers, Toolbars and other browser add-ons. The items that you seldom use can be removed to tidy up the right-click menu.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/ie8-context-1.png\" width=\"226\" height=\"440\"><\/p>\n<p>The context menu in Internet Explorer includes the following type of Add-ons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Accelerators (Internet Explorer 8 only)<\/li>\n<li>Menu extensions (All versions of Internet Explorer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Accelerators<\/h2>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/internet-explorer\/beta\/welcome\/default.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Accelerators<\/a> let you act on data in a Web page. For example, you can select a few lines of text and send it to a blog or email it with a click. Internet Explorer 8 comes with the following Accelerators out of the box:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blog with Windows Live Spaces<\/li>\n<li>Email with Live Mail<\/li>\n<li>Map with Live Maps<\/li>\n<li>Translate with Windows Live<\/li>\n<li>Define with Encarta<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that &quot;Accelerators&quot; is a new feature introduced in Internet Explorer 8.<\/p>\n<p>To disable unused Accelerators, use these steps:<\/p>\n<p>1. Open Internet Explorer<\/p>\n<p>2. Click Tools, select <b>Manage <u>A<\/u>dd-ons.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>3. Select <b>Accelerators<\/b><\/p>\n<p>4. Right-click the appropriate entry and click <b>Disable<\/b><\/p>\n<p>5. Click Close.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/ie8-context4.png\" width=\"466\" height=\"262\"><\/p>\n<h2>Menu Extensions<\/h2>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/aa753589.aspx\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Menu extensions<\/a> are supported in all versions of Internet Explorer, and information in this section applies to all versions of Internet Explorer. Menu extensions are stored in the registry, and each extension is linked to a HTML\/Script file that actually powers the menu item.<\/p>\n<p><b>Examples<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&quot;Export to Microsoft Excel&quot; extension exports Web page selection to a Excel Spreadsheet<\/li>\n<li>&quot;Download using FlashGet&quot; downloads the hyperlinked file using FlashGet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Menu extensions are loaded from the following registry key:<\/p>\n<pre>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\MenuExt<\/pre>\n<p>Each Menu extension has a subkey underneath the MenuExt branch. The <b>(default)<\/b> value in the right pane denotes the HTML\/Script file used by the extension.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/ie-menuext.png\" width=\"323\" height=\"146\"><\/p>\n<p>To remove a Menu extension, run <b>Regedit.exe<\/b> to start the Registry Editor. Navigate to the above location. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/xp\/registry.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Backup<\/a> the branch first. Right-click on the corresponding subkey and choose <b>Delete<\/b>. Exit the Registry Editor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/ie8-context-2.png\" width=\"206\" height=\"415\"><br \/>(Right-click menu, after cleanup)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The right-click menu in Internet Explorer may get cluttered up when you install download managers, Toolbars and other browser add-ons. The items that you seldom use can be removed to tidy up the right-click menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[264,441],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-explorer","tag-internet-explorer","tag-registry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1385,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/exit-explorer-restart-windows-10-8\/","url_meta":{"origin":679,"position":0},"title":"How to Restart Explorer.exe Cleanly in Windows 10 or 11","author":"Ramesh","date":"December 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Earlier, we learned how to exit and restart the explorer shell safely in earlier versions of Windows. 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