Removing foobar items from contexxt menu (Windows)

2004-04-30 13:06:28

Hi,

I was wondering if there is a way to remove from the context menu, 'Enqueue in Foobar' and 'Play in Foobar' when i right click on a folder.  I'm not talking about the context menu when i right click on the foobar display but talking about the menu in windows.

Thanks

Removing foobar items from contexxt menu (Windows)

Reply #1 – 2004-04-30 14:58:33

I assume unassotiating those files from Foobar2000 should do the job. In case that is not what you want to do you will have to do some registry editing.

In the registry under : my computer/H_KEY_CLASSES_ROOT you will find all the filetypes associated with foobar.

Each one will contain sub menus for, default icon, encue, open and play.

You will need to remove the entries that you don't want.

Please don't do this in case you don't have any experiences with editing the registry, since it is quite easy to do some damage there.

Removing foobar items from contexxt menu (Windows)

Reply #2 – 2004-05-01 05:54:33

cool thanks for the info.. btw will there be a feature to disable this (instead of editing the registry) in the future for foobar2000?

Removing foobar items from contexxt menu (Windows)

Reply #3 – 2004-05-01 06:06:30

Personally, I'd just like a dialog in the options panel to allow the customization of these context menu items easily. I like having them there, but I only want the 'Play in foobar2000' and 'Enqueue in foobar2000' items, and I also rename them to 'Play' and 'Enqueue', so my context menu is 250px wide. Any chance of that being implimented? Editing the registry for all the file types that foobar can open is very tedious and annoying.

Removing foobar items from contexxt menu (Windows)

Reply #4 – 2004-05-01 08:58:09

Just reinstall Foobar and uncheck these options at the bottom of the preferences step