# Context Menu Help

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/context-menu-help/508137>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 29, 2009, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/context-menu-help/508137 "2009-08-29T06:35:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2009, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/context-menu-help/508137/1 "2009-08-29T06:35:51Z")

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My video card’s drivers random crap to my context menus. I got the one’s from my desktop right click out but there’s still one more menu I can’t get rid of.

When I right click a minimized program on the taskbar, I still have “NView Options” below the “Close” option. Really annoying.

So, any advice on removing it?

I’m on Windows XP. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2009, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/context-menu-help/508137/2 "2009-08-29T15:16:59Z")

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My recollection is that in the NView configuration, there is a setting for disabling the NView Windows-handling extensions.

What they probably don’t have is an option to hide the choices on the minimized task bar entry while also leaving the icons & options available on the title bar of a non-minimized window.

Users are endless in their desires, but a desire to have the extra options available to manage & minimize windows, but not the reverse options to bring them back seems pretty far out there.

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Awesome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Captain\_Awesome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Awesome)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2009, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/context-menu-help/508137/3 "2009-08-29T16:02:01Z")

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Unless you want to mess about with the registry directly, download [shexview](http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.zip) ([http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html](http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html)). It will list all the shell extensions, so simply locate and disable the ‘NView options’ with this.
