Solved How to Remove "Windows Media Player Legacy" Context Menu Items?

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• Jul 27, 2022

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You can uninstall WMP legacy if not needed in settings-apps- Optional features. If you want to keep it and just remove the context menu for it use Nirsoft's ShellExview.

ShellExView - Shell Extension Manager For Windows

 

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Fabler2 said:

You can uninstall WMP legacy if not needed in settings-apps- Optional features. If you want to keep it and just remove the context menu for it use Nirsoft's ShellExview.

ShellExView - Shell Extension Manager For Windows

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I'm keeping WMP Legacy until Microsoft's new WMP can do the same things. The new one still can't see MP3s on my network shares.

 

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