If you’re like most people, your internet browser’s context menu is a cluttered mess. In this article, we’ll show you how to clean it up so that it’s easier to use. First, open your internet browser and click on the “Tools” menu. From here, select “Internet Options.” In the “Internet Options” window, click on the “Advanced” tab and then under the “General” heading, click on the “Content” button. In the “Content” window, scroll down until you see the section labeled “Context Menus.” Under this section, make sure that all of the items are checked except for the one labeled “History.” Click on the arrow next to this item and uncheck it. This will disable your history feature so that you won’t be able to accidentally revisit old websites. Now scroll down until you see the section labeled “Toolbars.” Under this section, make sure that all of the items are checked except for one called “Web Browser (IE).” Click on the arrow next to this item and uncheck it. This will disable your web browser’s toolbar so that you won’t have to search for different websites every time you open your internet browser. Finally, under the “Advanced” tab in the “Internet Options” window, click on the button labeled “Security.” In this window, make sure that all of the items are checked except for one called “[Default]” (which should be set to “[No Security]” by default). Click on OK to save your changes and close out of Internet Options. ..
Giant Context Menus!
Here’s a screenshot of the actual context menu in the browser on my PC, which is clearly completely out of control—and I don’t even use Internet Explorer on a regular basis.
Clean Out the Messy Context Menu
The first thing you’ll notice is that there’s an “Accelerators” section of the context menu, and if you don’t use any of them, you can easily get rid of them all. Just head into Tools –> Manage Add-ons, click on Accelerators on the left-hand menu, and then disable any of the items that you don’t use.
While you’re in here, you should also click on Toolbars and Extensions and get rid of anything else that you don’t actually need—it’ll make Internet Explorer run a whole lot faster.
Next you’ll want to open up regedit.exe through the start menu search or run box, and then browse down to the following key:
Once you’re there, right-click on the key and choose Export, and then save out the file somewhere just in case you need to revert the changes—if you do, you can simply double-click on the exported file to put everything back.
And now you can start deleting all the items that you don’t use.
You’ll need to restart Internet Explorer once you’re done, but you should notice that the context menu is much smaller than it used to be.
Much better, though still not great. Hopefully Internet Explorer 9 will make the menu system simpler.
