WMP10 Tweaks Questions

[evilvoice]

I know there is a lot of posting about how to remove items from the right click menu...most involve removing the entries from clsid, but I was looking at the inf file for wmp10 and noticed some things...this is what I found in the inf file

HKCR, "SystemFileAssociations\audio\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\WMPAddToPlaylist",,, "{F1B9284F-E9DC-4e68-9D7E-42362A59F0FD}"
HKCR, "SystemFileAssociations\audio\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\WMPAddToPlaylist","CheckSupportedTypes",, ""
HKCR, "SystemFileAssociations\audio\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\WMPPlayAsPlaylist",,,"{CE3FB1D1-02AE-4a5f-A6E9-D9F1B4073E6C}"
HKCR, "SystemFileAssociations\audio\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\WMPPlayAsPlaylist","CheckSupportedTypes",, ""
HKCR, "SystemFileAssociations\video\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\WMPAddToPlaylist",,, "{F1B9284F-E9DC-4e68-9D7E-42362A59F0FD}"
HKCR, "SystemFileAssociations\video\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\WMPAddToPlaylist","CheckSupportedTypes",, ""
HKCR, "SystemFileAssociations\video\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\WMPPlayAsPlaylist",,,"{CE3FB1D1-02AE-4a5f-A6E9-D9F1B4073E6C}"
HKCR, "SystemFileAssociations\video\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\WMPPlayAsPlaylist","CheckSupportedTypes",, ""
HKCR, "SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Audio\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\WMPAddToPlaylist",,, "{F1B9284F-E9DC-4e68-9D7E-42362A59F0FD}"
HKCR, "SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Audio\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\WMPPlayAsPlaylist",,,"{7D4734E6-047E-41e2-AEAA-E763B4739DC4}"
HKCR, "SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Video\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\WMPAddToPlaylist",,, "{F1B9284F-E9DC-4e68-9D7E-42362A59F0FD}"
HKCR, "SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Video\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\WMPPlayAsPlaylist",,,"{7D4734E6-047E-41e2-AEAA-E763B4739DC4}"
HKCR, "SystemFileAssociations\.mp3\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\WMPBurnAudioCD",,,"{8DD448E6-C188-4aed-AF92-44956194EB1F}"
HKCR, "SystemFileAssociations\.wav\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\WMPBurnAudioCD",,,"{8DD448E6-C188-4aed-AF92-44956194EB1F}"
HKCR, "SystemFileAssociations\.wma\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\WMPBurnAudioCD",,,"{8DD448E6-C188-4aed-AF92-44956194EB1F}"
HKCR, WMP.PlayMedia\shell\play\DropTarget, "clsid",,"{CE3FB1D1-02AE-4a5f-A6E9-D9F1B4073E6C}"
HKCR, WMP.BurnCD\Shell\Burn, ,,"%TEXT_BURN%"
HKCR, WMP.BurnCD\Shell\Burn, MUIVerb,,"@wmploc.dll,-6502"
HKCR, WMP.RipCD\Shell\Rip, ,,"%TEXT_RIP%"
HKCR, WMP.RipCD\Shell\Rip, MUIVerb,,"@wmploc.dll,-6506"
HKCR, WMP.AudioCD\Shell\Play,,,"%PLAYTEXT%"
HKCR, WMP.AudioCD\Shell\Play, MUIVerb,,"@wmploc.dll,-6503"
HKCR, WMP.PlayCD\Shell\Play,,,"%PLAYTEXT%"
HKCR, WMP.PlayCD\Shell\Play, MUIVerb,,"@wmploc.dll,-6503"
HKCR, WMP.PlayMedia\Shell\Play,,,"%PLAYTEXT%"
HKCR, WMP.PlayMedia\Shell\Play, MUIVerb,,"@wmploc.dll,-1800"
HKCR, WMP.DVD\Shell\Play,,,"%PLAYTEXT%"
HKCR, WMP.DVD\Shell\Play, MUIVerb,,"@wmploc.dll,-6504"

I also never saw where it sets the guid string in CLSID in the inf...not that doing it that way is persay wrong, but this is what the inf is doing to set those right click menus. There are a couple more that I guess if I understood the inf completely, I would add the rest of the strings, but I dont. I just wanted to post this to see what others thought...in the sense that if we remove the string from clsid, does that get rid of every reg setting that enables the right click menu...nothing worse than having dangling reg entries. post responses, and if you wanna see where this came from, open wmp10.inf and search for SystemFileAssociations...all of this is around there.

[evilvoice]

* removed, no longer needed

[ran]

* removed, no longer needed

why not? sounds like a reasonable idea.

Why not prevent WMP from installing/setting them in the first place?

Ran

[evilvoice]

that originally said to change the topic title...I just removed the post because a mod changed the title...the first post is still relevant, I think.