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Context Menu Icons
Friday, October 7, 2005 at 11:29 am
Posted by Sereby (34 messages posted)

Some of the apps that I have installed (specifically ZoneAlarm, WinRAR and Acrobat Pro) have their own entries in file context menus. However, they also place little icons next to their respective text entries. Since the applications themselves do not have an option for disabling the display of these icons, is there a way that I can manually disable them in the registry?

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re: Context Menu Icons
Friday, October 7, 2005 at 8:54 pm
Posted by Ken (930 messages posted)


Hi Sereby, I do not believe there is a simple way to do this with a registry change. You can, however do it another way if you REALLY want it done. That little icon is embedded into a .dll file that the programs need to perform the context menu functions. But the functions will still work if the icon is removed (hacked) out of the .dll file. If you want to pursue this further, I will help. You will need two programs to do it. Download and install them if you want to try this, and post back for more help if you want it. These are the programs you will need: 1. ShellExView, to identify the .dll file supplying the icon to the context menu. 2. Resource Hacker, to remove the icon bitmap from the .dll and save it modified. You will more than likely have to save the modified .dll under another name since it will be "in use by another program" - like originalfile2.dll Then getting it in the place of the originalfile.dll can be done in a number of ways (safe mode, recovery console, MOVE the original to another spot, then rename originalfile2.dll as originalfile.dll, etc). I have used this method to do what you want, and it works fine.



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