Block program(s) from re-adding context menu entries?

Many programs add entries to our context menu without giving us a choice. Manually removing them does not work out long-term because an update can re-add them at any moment.

My example here is iDrive. iDrive adds a context menu entry via IDContextMenu.dll. This file is redownloaded every update if it is deleted or disabled.
IDContextMenu.dll adds/modifies this entry in the Registry.


Is there a reliable way to remove it from the context menu and block it from re-adding the entry after update? Many thanks.

@Titanonectes
Here's ten points just for filling out your computer specs.

Probably the easiest thing to do would be to write one big registry patch, for removing all the items from the context menu that you don't want.

The best part is that if you find another program that does that, you can just add it to the registry patch.


There's also this...

Nirsoft has a couple of free tools for managing the context menu.

Look into ShellMenuView and ShellExView

I have never seen anything that blocks a context menu entry on install.