A Minor Annoyance

[Sailor Steve]

I feel silly even posting this here, but it's driving me crazy.

When I right-click on the desktop and the little menu comes up, under 'New' there are now several file listings for things I don't want there, such as a sound file from SH3. I've been all through the help section and I can't find out how to remove things from that menu. Clicking an item creates a desktop icon. Right-clicking the item creates a desktop icon.

How do I make these things go away?

[frau kaleun]

I don't know but I think that right-click pop up is called a "context menu" so that might be a term to search for. Seems like I used to know how to customize it but I cannot remember how.

My first thoughts were to look in Taskbar/Start Menu properties and Folder Options (via Control Panel in XP) but I can't find anything in either that looks like what you would want.

:hmmm:

Well it is customizable to some degree in Tweak UI for XP, if that's your OS. If you don't have Tweak UI it was one of Microsoft's so-called "Power Tools" for Windows, the XP version was available free from the Microsoft site cuz I had it at home and still have it here at work.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/windows-xp

Under "My Computer" and "Templates" it has a list of possible document types that can be created from the "New" command on the right-click popup menu, and you can select or deselect them to get them on or off that menu. So obviously it's doable but I don't know how without using Tweak UI.

[kiwi_2005]

^ Yup TweakUI

[Sailor Steve]

Well, I downloaded TweakUI and it won't even tell me where it installed in on the computer. I found several 'Templates' folders in Owners/Documents or something, but deleting things had no effect on the click-menu.

Next?

[frau kaleun]

There's a shortcut to it from my Start Menu in All Programs>Power Toys for Windows XP. It points here: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\TweakUI.exe, I assume that's the default location.

[Gerald]

http://www.tune-up.com/products/tuneup-utilities/

[Sailor Steve]

There's a shortcut to it from my Start Menu in All Programs>Power Toys for Windows XP. It points here: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\TweakUI.exe, I assume that's the default location.
That did the job. Thanks. :salute:

[frau kaleun]

That did the job. Thanks. :salute:

:up:

[Feuer Frei!]

While we are on the subject of Tweaking, Win 7/Vista users rejoice, there is something for us too, not made by Microsoft, free to use:

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/ultimate-windows-tweaker-v2-a-tweak-ui-for-windows-7-vista

[frau kaleun]

While we are on the subject of Tweaking, Win 7/Vista users rejoice, there is something for us too, not made by Microsoft, free to use:

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/ultimate-windows-tweaker-v2-a-tweak-ui-for-windows-7-vista

Yep, I went looking for that about 30 seconds after installing Win7. :yep: