[Resolved] How to remove an option from right click menu

[r01axb]

Hello,

I unistalled a program called Neo trace, when I right click on a link theres still an option that says Neo Trace It, does anybody know how i can get rid of this?

 

[TonyKlein]

Go to Start > Run > REgedit, and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt

Under MenuExt you will see subfolders named for the menu entries in question.

Click one of them and look in the right pane.

The default value points to a htm file.

Rightclick the menu entry you wish to remove, and choose Delete from the menu.

Cheers,

 

[r01axb]

That did it. Thank you very much.

 

[TonyKlein]

No prob!

 

[r01axb]

Neo trace also appears in the list of available toolbar buttons, is there a way to get rid of this?

thanks.

 

[TonyKlein]

Yes.

Have a look at the subkeys of HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Extensions

You can also easily get rid of it by customizing your toolbar and simply hiding it.

 

[r01axb]

That did it, thank you.

Another question I was trying to create a google search button
by following the instructions:


Place your mouse pointer on any of the text links above.

Press down the left mouse button and hold.

Drag to the "Links" bar - your pointer symbol will change.

Release the mouse to create the link as a button on your toolbar.

the problem is I don't have a "Links" bar, I went to View > Toolbars > Links and checked it still nothing.

would you know a fix for this?

thanks.

 

[TonyKlein]

You mean this one ?

You do have a Links toolbar, but it can easily "hide behind" one of the others.

Also make sure "lock the toolbars" is UNchecked.

Try dragging the dividers with your mouse in order to find it.

 

[r01axb]

Yes thats the one I'm talking about, I have it unlocked, I dragged it, but it's just a empty toolbar, It doesn't say links on it, and when i try to drag the google link onto it - it shows a circle with a slash going through it, Is there a way to get it back with regedit?

thanks.

 

[TonyKlein]

I could whip up a regfile to restore the correct parameters for the Links bar, which may or may not help, but I'm in Windows XP at the moment, and it's getting late down here.

It'll have to wait until tomorrow.

Also, I'm running IE 6.0 SP1 on both operating systems. What version of IE are you running?

 

[TonyKlein]

Also, repairing, or more likely reinstalling or upgrading IE should help.

 

[r01axb]

Reparing it worked, thanks, the odd thing is that it created a favorites folder in the favorites menu rather then a links folder,
but I was able to place the google shourtcut in the "favorites " toolbar.

One more question, when you highlight something and click on the google shortcut, it goes to the google site in the same window, is there a way to make it open a new window by editing this script:

javascript:q=(document.frames.length?'':document.selection.createRange().text);for(i=0;i<document.frames.length;i++){q=document.frames.document.selection.createRange().text;if(q!='')break;}if(q=='')void(q=prompt('Enter text to search using Google. You can also highlight a word on this web page before clicking Google Search.',''));if(q)location.href='http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q='+escape(q)




thanks.

 

[daveoo]

Hi

Just thought I would tell you that I had same trouble and that your post solved mine too so thanks to you both