# Remove installation of Context Menu entries
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-installation-of-context-menu-entries/62831
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [November 21, 2023, 5:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-installation-of-context-menu-entries/62831 "2023-11-21T17:56:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@timbereman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/timbereman)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2023, 5:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-installation-of-context-menu-entries/62831/1 "2023-11-21T17:56:43Z")
I enable the Context Menu entries in the program. But there are two entries that I do not feel are valuable. They are;
Computer\HKEY\_CLASSES\_ROOT\Drive\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Mp3tagShell
Computer\HKEY\_CLASSES\_ROOT\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Mp3tagShell
The first entry is for **Drives** and the second entry is for **Directories**. I have never wanted to open Mp3tag in order work on files located at the Drive or Directory starting point. I have only wanted to work on files at the file level. As such, the only Context Menu entry that should be created is this one;
Computer\HKEY\_CLASSES\_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Mp3tagShell
Would you be willing to give us a choice of which of the three Context Menu entries we want to be created when the program is installed? Or, to simplify things, create the entry only at the File level?
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 12:10am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-installation-of-context-menu-entries/62831/2 "2023-11-22T00:10:19Z")
> [@timbereman](#):
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> Or, to simplify things, create the entry only at the File level?
-1 to this idea. Often a right click menu to access mp3tag from an album, artist, or even the whole library folder is the fastest way to launch the program and immediately load that specific group of music files.
A choice maybe if that can be accomplished and desired by the developer. But certainly this shouldn't be removed.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 7:28am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-installation-of-context-menu-entries/62831/3 "2023-11-22T07:28:06Z")
> [@timbereman](#):
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> Or, to simplify things
To simplify things, just export your unwanted registry entries and [add a hyphen in front of](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-add-modify-or-delete-registry-subkeys-and-values-by-using-a-reg-file-9c7f37cf-a5e9-e1cd-c4fa-2a26218a1a23) the registry key [inside the square brackets] like this:
```auto
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Mp3tagShell]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Mp3tagShell]
```
Then you can double click this `RemoveMp3tagShellForDriveAndDirectory.reg` and the entries are gone.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 7:55am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-installation-of-context-menu-entries/62831/4 "2023-11-22T07:55:02Z")
You could as an alternative, install the portable version which does not install any shell extensions (or use the standard installation and un-tick the explorer extension).
As, if you have reached the file in the explorer anyway, it would be just as easy to drag&drop it on the MP3tag window.