Tuesday, September 27, 2005

REG: Remove WMP Explorer Shell Extensions

HARD WAY:
Remove Windows Media Player (WMP) Explorer Shell Extensions From the Context Menu

Go into your registry editor, and remove the following keys to remove "Add to Playlist" from your context menu for video files.

This may also be done for:
Add to Now Playing List
Add to Sync List
Add to Burn List
Play on My TV

;Remove Add to Now Playing List and Add to Playlist for WMV files
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WMVFile\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\WMPAddToPlaylist]

;Remove Add to Now Playing List and Add to Playlist for MPEG AND MPG Files
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mpegfile\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\WMPAddToPlaylist]

;Remove Add to Now Playing List and Add to Playlist for ASF Files
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ASFFile\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\WMPAddToPlaylist]

;Remove Add to Now Playing List and Add to Playlist for Avi Files
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AVIFile\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\WMPAddToPlaylist]

;This key also needs to be removed along with any of the 4 keys above
;It is found in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
[...root\SystemFileAssociations\video\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\WMPAddToPlaylist]


You can do the same for audio files.

EASY WAY:
download ShellExView and disable WMP extensions.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is great here, and acurate...
But, I have another problem.
I do not want to remove anithing.
The problem which I hae, is tha when I right click Context Menu on e.g. .WAV, .MP3, .WMV, .AVI and all other multimedia file tipes, weell, nothing happens.
The WMP do not start as the link is broken...
Please help and advice.
Thank you in advance for every usefull information.

marker said...

go to [start]> settings> control panel
open folder options open the file types tab, then look for a specific extension like WAV. Then relink it to the correct program using the advanced button.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the tip