I use Winamp to play mp3s. I always have done - it’s lightweight, I like the interface and it has the few plugins I need. I don’t need the bloat of iTunes or Windows Media Player. However, I seem to have Windows Media Player installed - I don’t remember installing it, and I probably wouldn’t have noticed it was there were it not for the plethora of context menu items it installs.
All I wanted to do was right-click a selection of mp3s and then queue them in the Winamp playlist. That’s when I noticed a load of entries like “sync to device”, “burn”, “add to library”. Turns out Media Player had hooked into the shell. Thankfully, there is a way to get rid of this integration (which added a delay of several seconds to my right-click!).
Here’s the fix, click Start, Run and type:
regsvr32 /u wmpshell.dll
Horrah - a much cleaner context menu. I wonder if there is any software to allow you to remove specific entries from that list?
thx alot..
i hate WMA.. winamp 4ever xD
Thank you. It works. Just another steptowards cleaner windows
Thanks a bunch. Just what I was looking for, a quick fix to get WMP out of my context menu.
Didnt work for me. Vista 64 ultimate.
@Sokonomi:
I was doing this on Windows XP SP2 - I’m sure Media Player integration is very different under Vista.
You can do that with contextedit
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/ContextEdit.shtml
Excellent! Thanks Joolee, just what I was looking for.
Thank you soooo much for this. Quick, easy and effective! Great!
Thx!! Works for me (vista64 ultimate)
great, i had exactly your problem, thx.
works on vista x64
thanks a bunch. worked for me with vista x64. Winamp rules!!
thanks dude! that command works like a charm on vista business sp1.
Thanks for the quick fix. Much appreciated.