Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Remove MS Office Right Click Context Menu Entries

 Are you irritated by the MS Office or Libre Office right click context entries in the "new" option?

Open Regedit to
Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
Do a search for shellnew
F3 to cycle through and manually delete the entries in appropriate shellnew folders.

Winaero has downloadable .reg files to delete MS Office entries. It says office 2019 but it worked on 2010 except for the Publish entry which I had to delete manually.

I had Libre Office installed for some reason and removed those manually. (They may reinstall with updates?) If I installed Libre often I would make .reg files to delete.


I don't know why I hated those entries because I seldom if ever access the new item on the menu. And now that I know how to blast them, I probably wouldn't bother.

Bonus: While you are at it, might as well grab Nilesoft.shell and get rid of that miserable Win11 context menu. You can easily turn it off and on while you are deciding which is better. It won't take long to decide.

Curl, Wget, Winget & Powershell Install or Download Commands

After the mess I made in previous posts this summary might be useful.     Thanks PatchMyPC, the great and powerful program downloader and up...