"ShellExView lets you view all installed shell extensions. If available, it displays the description, as well as version details, company information, location, file name and more. You can optionally disable/enable any item, which can be very useful to disable an extension, that you don t need or that has been left behind in your right click menu from a previous software install.
Effective usage of ShellExView to resolve the right-click problems
Download ShellExView Run it and It will scan the registry for all the shell extensions. Once the scan is over and the list is displayed, you need to spot the context menu handlers. Sort the results using "Type", so that the context menu handlers are displayed together.
General rule here is to disable non-Microsoft context menu handlers *one-by-one* and verify if the problem is solved. If disabling one does not solve the problem, undo the disabled item and disable the next non-Microsoft handler. Do the same until the problem is solved and finally identify the culprit. Scroll right to see the Company Name column in ShellExView.
The latest version of ShellExView (v1.10) marks all the non-Microsoft extensions in Pink for easy identification. All other types of shell extensions that ShellExView utility cannot recognize are categorized as "System" type."
Personally I would probably disable all of the non Microsoft items at one time so I would know if it was going to help or not.
Alternatively you can run ShellExView and Edit Select All then File, Save Selected Items and it will ask you what to call the file. Call it junk and save it where you can find it again. Then send it to me as an attachment rkinner AT att DOT net Use DELL garce as a subject. Don't try and post it as a reply. It will be way too big.
I download/install/run ShellExView and came up with a list. After looking to the list I notice one that had some history. I uninstalled divx pro with some issues just around the time the problem started. After I disabled the divx encode menu the problem was fixed! Thanks a lot for your help! This problem has been bugging me a lot for some time now. Should I remove the entry or just leave it disabled?
On another note what antivirus/antispyware-adaware suite would you recommend (free if possible). What type of regular maintenance? I do have EZantivirus running. The research done previously on resolving this problem showed me that I may not be well prepared security wise
seems to be a popular free antivirus. Microsoft's AntiSpy is also free and very good and can work with AVG. Current version is officially a BETA but it is really Giant's program being tweaked to give the look and feel of a windows program. Gates has said it will be free for all real Win2K and XP systems.
Make sure you have System Restore running (toggle it off and On today to get rid of any bad stuff it may have retained)
and then you can just go back to an earlier time if you hit a bad site.
One way to make this more obvious is to check everything in your current HijackThis and Add to Ignore List then set up Hijackthis to run at boot and to show you if it finds anything new.
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Start, Run, sigverif, OK Then press Start in the new program. When it finishes, do you see wininet.dll in the list of unsigned files?
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oembios.bin
oembios.dat
oembios.sig
atapi.sys
btaudio.sys
omci.sys
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Download ShellExView Run it and It will scan the registry for all the shell extensions. Once the scan is over and the list is displayed, you need to spot the context menu handlers. Sort the results using "Type", so that the context menu handlers are displayed together.
General rule here is to disable non-Microsoft context menu handlers *one-by-one* and verify if the problem is solved. If disabling one does not solve the problem, undo the disabled item and disable the next non-Microsoft handler. Do the same until the problem is solved and finally identify the culprit. Scroll right to see the Company Name column in ShellExView.
The latest version of ShellExView (v1.10) marks all the non-Microsoft extensions in Pink for easy identification. All other types of shell extensions that ShellExView utility cannot recognize are categorized as "System" type."
Personally I would probably disable all of the non Microsoft items at one time so I would know if it was going to help or not.
Alternatively you can run ShellExView and Edit Select All then File, Save Selected Items and it will ask you what to call the file. Call it junk and save it where you can find it again. Then send it to me as an attachment rkinner AT att DOT net Use DELL garce as a subject. Don't try and post it as a reply. It will be way too big.
Ron
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September 23rd, 2005 14:00
On another note what antivirus/antispyware-adaware suite would you recommend (free if possible). What type of regular maintenance? I do have EZantivirus running. The research done previously on resolving this problem showed me that I may not be well prepared security wise
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and then you can just go back to an earlier time if you hit a bad site.
To avoid going to a bad site you might want to install IE-SpyAd and SpywareBlaster and make the other changes recommended at:.
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/restricted.htm
I used to recommend Spybot's Immunize system but have recently learned it is not as good as the one at:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/activescan.asp?
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
In addition to Microsoft AntiSpy
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/downloads/default.mspx
I like to run Spybot S&D.
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
Also like to run AdAware once in a while.
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/