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[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Printers]

There you go that will stop printing on accident. Thats why I want to remove. Finding myself clicking print on accident a lot.

The cool thing is you can still print in appz it seems. I just tried word and still prints fine, but when clicking print from a context menu it just turns on the printer if its off and spits out a blank page. So it does not print at all. No more wasted paper cause I forgot to hit the cancel button fast enough. hehe

just to confirm: removing this key removes the "Print" item from the context menu for all filetypes or disables the command but leaves the item?

(I'd check myself but I already removed it from all filetypes...) Thanks.

just in case it only disables it, I also spent the time to update my zipped reg file in case anybody's interested. :P otherwise ignore this last bit here :whistle:

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Hmm. I don't have these entries in my registry...

;To Remove Print From Internet Shortcut

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\InternetShortcut\shell\print]

;To Remove Print From Internet Shortcut 2

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\InternetShortcut\shell\print]

I have "printto" though. Is that it?

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Hmm.  I don't have these entries  in my registry...

;To Remove Print From Internet Shortcut

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\InternetShortcut\shell\print]

;To Remove Print From Internet Shortcut 2

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\InternetShortcut\shell\print]

I have "printto" though.  Is that it?

Well, duh. I had already removed it with this...

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

;Remove Print From Internet Shortcut
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\InternetShortcut\shell\print]

The "Remove Make Available Offline From Internet Shortcuts" worked like a charm.

You're really great at uncovering these, spiritpyre. Thanks so much for time you invest in it.

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war59312

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just to confirm: removing this key removes the "Print" item from the context menu for all filetypes or disables the command but leaves the item?

(I'd check myself but I already removed it from all filetypes...) Thanks.

just in case it only disables it, I also spent the time to update my zipped reg file in case anybody's interested.  :P  otherwise ignore this last bit here  :whistle:

Yeap it just pretty much disables Print on every file type. It does NOT remove Print from all files though. Yeap would be nice if you could just remove one print entry to remove it from all file types.

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How about removing some of the right-click context menus that show up when you right-click directly on an opened web page?  That menu really looks a mess, doesn't it? 

If anyone can do it, I'll bet you can.   :thumbup

This ?

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Extensions]

Or do you mean the right click context menu of the task bar ?

Like this :

context.PNG

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hey what is the difference between these two

;----- Disable System Restore
;----- Value: (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
;-----
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore]
"DisableSR"=dword:00000000

and

;-----  Disable System Restore Service (default=2)
;-----
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\srservice]
"Start"=dword:00000002

someone plz explain...

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@ Bold_Fortune

I have "printto" though.  Is that it?

"printto" might be related but it isn't what displays the item in the menu.

How about removing some of the right-click context menus that show up when you right-click directly on an opened web page?  That menu really looks a mess, doesn't it? 

if you mean IE/webrowser context menu (see pic)? then I'm not really sure...

but I wouldn't mind slimming that menu down myself:

IE_context_menu.JPG

@ war59312

I don't remember ever removing this entry, but i didn't have it either:

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt]

i'm not sure what removing this one does/did but it doesn't seem like any of my menus are missing:

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Extensions]

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hey what is the difference between these two

;----- Disable System Restore
;----- Value: (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
;-----
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore]
"DisableSR"=dword:00000000

and

;-----  Disable System Restore Service (default=2)
;-----
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\srservice]
"Start"=dword:00000002

someone plz explain...

just a guess but it might be two different settings for the same thing. Like "DisableSR" might be the program's value for whether or not it should run and the second one could be explorer/task scheduler/whatever's value for whether or not they should let it run.

<edit> lol anyone have a spellcheck utiliy for web browsers/forum boards? :P

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war59312

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@ war59312

I don't remember ever removing this entry, but i didn't have it either:

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt]

i'm not sure what removing this one does/did but it doesn't seem like any of my menus are missing:

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Extensions]

MenuExt is the right click context menu in IE

Extensions is the file, edit, view, favorites, tools, help menu in IE. Most addons add stuff to the tools menu like AIM, roboforum, iespell, etc.

If you delete both all itmes are gone. That is its reset to default meaning no extra ones besies the built in ones like view source etc.

To change the default menu entries you are going to need to edit a dll. Dont know which ATM though. :(

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hey what is the difference between these two

;----- Disable System Restore
;----- Value: (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
;-----
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore]
"DisableSR"=dword:00000000

and

;-----  Disable System Restore Service (default=2)
;-----
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\srservice]
"Start"=dword:00000002

someone plz explain...

The first ones sets it to zero bytes. Like:

Right click my computer and properties then system restore tab and setting disk space usage to zero. Now this way on my pc it says to 200mb but via registry it gets set to zero which disables it.

The second is the system restore serivce. Why run its serivce if you have disabled it by setting it to zero bytes via the first one.

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MenuExt is the right click context menu in IE

Extensions is the file, edit, view, favorites, tools, help menu in IE. Most addons add stuff to the tools menu like AIM, roboforum, iespell, etc.

If you delete both all itmes are gone. That is its reset to default meaning no extra ones besies the built in ones like view source etc.

To change the default menu entries you are going to need to edit a dll. Dont know which ATM though. :(

<edit> nm i misread your post...

anyway i think i found something but I haven't had time to test it yet. I'll post it here and in the other thread

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war59312

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Update 31.07.05 please see new attachment on the first post.

Thanks for all bugs, corrections and addition.

Nice one! :thumbup

BTW maybe you should change the name of the rar to include the date. So like:

Registry_Tweaks_July_31_2005.rar

cya,

Will

Um in the file it still says:

--== Version  1.8b ==--
;      Created By: John Cronk aka "Johnny Do"
;      j-cronk@writeme.com
;      Created  Sep 13, 2004
;              Last Updated: April 02 2005

It should be:

--== Version  1.8c ==--
;      Created By: John Cronk aka "Johnny Do"
;      j-cronk@writeme.com
;      Created  Sep 13, 2004
;              Last Updated: July 31 2005

Also, forgot to say about these two:

;Remove Print From PHP Files
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TextPad.php\shell\print]

;Remove Print From PDF Files
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FoxitReader.Document\shell\print]

They are only generic and depend on your default editor. So they have to change the TextPad.php and FoxitReader.Document to their default editor.

So maybe change in file to:

;Remove Print From PHP Files (Change AppName, To Name Of Default App For File Type)
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppName.php\shell\print]

;Remove Print From PDF Files (Change AppName, To Name Of Default App For File Type)
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppName.Document\shell\print]

Also you added two of:

;Remove Print From Internet Shortcut
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\InternetShortcut\shell\print]

s***, in fact you added them all twice. lol And in change log. ;)

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