Oops. This is overkill, if a specific Context menu named "contents" is
all one wants to remove. Better try what Edwards said, instead...

.......Quote............
Uninstall it if it is the Win95 PowerToy.
It will have an entry in Control Panel-Add/Remove called "Contents
Submenu"

....Alan
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Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html
.......EOQ..............

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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"PCR" wrote in message
...
| "START button, Run, RegEdit", & navigate to...
|
|
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Exp
| lorer
|
| That is...
| (a) Click plus signs, beginning at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER" & ending with
| "Policies".
| (b) Click "Explorer" in the left pane, & look in the right pane.
| (c) R-Clk the R-Pane and select New, Binary Value, & name it:
| "NoViewContextMenu", w/o the quotes.
| (d) R-Clk "NoViewContextMenu", in the R-pane, & select "Modify".
| (e) Change it to: 01 00 00 00.
| (R-Arrow to left of first "00", use delete key, type "01".)
| (f) Exit, & it may be necessary to reboot.
|
| WARNING: Do not get carried away in the Registry. It is very important
| to the proper functioning of Windows. Muss it badly, & you must boot
to
| DOS & "Scanreg /Restore". Then, choose the date of the last successful
| boot from the five offered.
|
| The rest of this is just informational...
|
| .....Start of Other things that may be done there.......
| Right-click the right pane and select New, Binary Value, & name it:
|
| NoClose To disable Shut Down.
| NoFavoritesMenu To remove Favorites.
| NoFileMenu To remove the File Menu in Explorer.
| NoFind To remove Find.
| NoLogOff To remove Log Off.
| NoRecentDocsHistory To disable the Documents compilation process.
| NoRecentDocsMenu To remove Documents.
| NoRun To remove Run.
| NoSaveSettings To prevent some few settings getting saved to the
| Registry.
| NoSetFolders To disable Control Panel and Printer folders.
| NoTrayContextMenu To disable Taskbar context menu.
| NoViewContextMenu To disable (all?) context menus.
|
| Double-click the new entry, select modify, and add this value: 01 00
00
| 00.
| To reverse the action, change the value to: 00 00 00 00
| ......End of Other things that may be done there.......
|
| http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q130234
| Save Settings On Exit Option Enabled by Default
| ...Quote.............
| ...snip...
| Setting the NoSaveSettings field to 1 prevents your settings from
being
| saved. When you set this value, the following items are not saved when
| you exit Windows:
|
| Changed icon positions on the desktop.
| Windows that are open when you exit.
| The size and position of the taskbar.
| ...End quote.......
|
|
| --
| Thanks or Good Luck,
| There may be humor in this post, and,
| Naturally, you will not sue,
| should things get worse after this,
| PCR
|
| "JohnB" wrote in message
| om...
| | I have win98SE, I would like to get rid of the contents right-click
| menu.
| | I do not know if that is a powertoy, native to win98, or possibly
| | a Norton utilities function. Any help is appreciated.
| |
| | tx,
| |
| | john
|
|