Computer "Mouse" question

[MalcolmInN]

Well - I did a little more research and discovered that the utility CCleaner now has an option in it's "Tools" menu to disable or delete unwanted items in the right click menu. This option is available in the "free" edition of the software by the way.

Glad you got it sorted !
Sorry I am a bit late on parade !!
Yep, wot Mike said 

I wonder if you even needed CCleaner because one of the items in that list of your right-click (aka the Context Menu) you already have Glary Utilities installed
and on their page
http://ccm.net/faq/15813-glary-utilities-manage-the-items-in-the-context-menus
they say
"Many third party software tends to install options in the context menu (right-click) , some that you may not find of any use. Glary Utilities provide an easy way to clean out the items you deemed as obsolete. "


Too late for your prob now but a note for folks in the future :
One way of avoiding these bad programs that install stuff in your Context (with or without your consent !) is not to INSTALL them at all ! :-
Look for a Portable version, any ancillary software worth its salt these days has a portable version. (avoid third party versions/portablisations, use the author portable)
These do not need installing, dont mess with your registry etc&etc. They can be used from portable media such as USB hard and/or flash drives, or if speed is of the essence a folder on your C: or D: drives.

Put not your faith in Virus Checkers, they all are only ever playing catchup.

[PLD]

So, one of the major culprits for the additional options seen in the menu, is a utility that allows you to control what is in the menu!   
You have to love the irony but not the half-wit programmers... 

[MikeDunn]

Yep, wot Mike said 

Look for a Portable version

Portable apps are very useful    Taken quite a while to catch on, but ...

[Tdm]

I only recently re-installed Glary Utilities (after not using it for a while) - but I never noticed the option within it to edit the context menu. Maybe it wasn't there in an older version and I never checked the changes in the latest version when I installed it again.

Anyway thanks to this Forum everything is sorted, and I can spend less time sorting out PC problems, and more time on my layout.

When I first started out in Computing (back in the 60's) it was as a "PLAN" programmer on an early ICT (as they were initially called) mainframe - a 1901 model.

I really like PLAN - it was more of an Assembler language than COBOL, and if I was asked I could probably still write a program in PLAN today (Programming LAnguage Nineteen hundred). You could do some clever things in PLAN such changing the format of some basic "instructions" on certain passes of the program. 

Anyway got 8 family members coming out this weekend (including 4 grandchildren), and my son is bringing with him another B12 from Union Mills to use on the layout.

[MalcolmInN]

You have to love the irony

 

(David)
I have spotted many varieties in the wild (/Attenthingy)
1 ) the badest progs. go ahead and install allsorts everywhere without a "by your leave"
2 ) next worstest give you a tick box during the installation,  already ticked, and hope you wont notice.

1 & 2 probably including installing all sorts of other junkware and adware ( including being responsible for most of the "I've been infected" reports, and maybe even the "it just happened" ones  )

3 ) then the better but endangered species, those that give you a tick box but dont default tick it for you. This one will probably have an option in its settings/preferences to allow you to remove it from your Context, but often buried so deep that you die of frustration before you find it !

Repeat after me - put your trust only in Portables,
or the subspecies that does an installation for you but limits itself to only putting itself in a folder somewhere with an associated .ini file held locally in that folder (aka directory)
This one can usually be spotted by having bright stripes of .zip on its plumage instead of the drab .exe markings of 1) & 2) !

Here endeth the 2nd lesson 

Oh yes I remember Cobol, wish you hadnt said that ! Whatever happened to ADA ? Now then, Basic, came in for a lot of stick but nevertheless got a lot of peeps into computing, who then went on to C, , , C++ was a step too far, way beyond anything that I needed to prog. for !

[MalcolmInN]

(back in the 60's) it was as a "PLAN"
,
(including 4 grandchildren), and my son is bringing with him another B12 from Union Mills to use on the layout.

Fortran for me back then,
,
enjoy.

[DELETED]

I get so many choices when I right click the mouse that it covers more than a screen full, and I have to scroll down every time to get to the one I want (which is normally rename or delete).

I know you may want to do this by the menu and this may well be teaching granny to suck eggs but to re-name just click once, wait half a second then click again and type in the new name.  To delete, just click once and press "delete"?  No menus needed for either, and probably quicker not doing it by the menu anyway.  I agree with you though, I think there's way too much in the right click menus these days depending what the file extension is.

Cheers,

Rich