Recent content by Skeptic Mike

My mistake. I was looking at the row of icons on the default new context menu, and the share icon disappears from there whichever way you deal with the context menu issue. (Which seems very odd.) For completeness I should point out that blocking the extension should presumably remove the option...

If you remove share from the context menu by blocking the extension instead it is removed from both context menus. You can also perform this for the current user without admin rights. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell...

That data for the registry value is set to an empty string here. Since it doesn't matter what data you use, I normally set it to to something that helps me to know what I'm blocking without needing to look it up. Here I would use Clipchamp or "Clipchamp context menu"

Under Windows 10 the font face and size for the text preview were set from the last saved value from Windows Notepad. This has been changed in Windows 11 (23H2). It's now controlled by the values in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Notepad\DefaultFonts iPontSize is the point size...

WinAero tweaker doesn't work unless the account you are using is a member of administrators, and you are happy to allow it to elevate. It's a collection of tweaks, some require administrator rights, some are implemented in a way that requires administrator rights, these should (mostly) work if...

If you want to show Recycle Bin in Explorer without showing all folders: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}] "System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree"=dword:00000001 Should do what you want. The same technique can be...

I was trying to figure out how to remove exisiting shellNew entries for a regular (non-admin) user. I noticed that some of the defaults include a Config key under ShellNew. I couldn't find any documentation about the different values. Does anyone know of any? By experiment, it appears that...