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Posted by MitchellWmA on July 1, 2007, 7:57 am
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>> Does anyone know? I've looked through the entries in ContextEdit and
>> via the filetypes way but can't see where this command originates from
>> that appears in the context menu when we right-click on any filetype.
>> It isn't showing up in the usual spots. thx
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>Don't know where 'bassbag' was going in his reply. I see no
>user-configurable option within AVG anti-virus that lets the user
>disable or remove the namespace for the context menu for "Scan with
>AVG". If you have AVG installed, you get that extension.
There is, actually. It's in the control center.
>You could use NirSoft's Shell Extension Viewer (shexview.exe) to see
>just where it is defined. The name of the extension doesn't always
>match the string that you get to see. Sort by the "Company Name" column
>to see Grisoft's additions. For me, there are 2 of them: one extension
>called "AVG7 Find Extension Class" and "AVG7 Shell Extension Class". My
>guess is that you want to look at the 2nd one. Although this utility
>has "Viewer" in its name, you can use it to disable extensions.
>
>Although it doesn't let you change the string that gets displayed in the
>context menu, you can get the classID for the extension and then search
>in the registry using regedit. On searching for
>"9F97547E-4609-42C5-AE0C-81C61FFAEBC3", the classID identified in
>Nirsoft's utility, I see the global shell extension was defined under
>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers. More searching found
>the folder context extension was defined under
>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers. More searching
>showed more object types with shellex entries for context handlers where
>AVG was listed. I didn't find where "Scan with AVG" was defined in the
>registry as the handler's display string for AVG so you probably don't
>get to change it (i.e., it comes out of the DLL file).
>
>I did find
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell
>Extensions under which AVG7 was listed under the Approved subkey. I
>suspect the Blocked subkey is where Shell Extension Viewer would move
>the entry if you chose to disable the context extension.
Hi, thanks. Yes, I ended up finding and signing on to the AVG forum
and they also told me about this registry entry. Thanks. I don't now
how to edit this entry to add an icon. The annoyance is that their
anti-spyware context menu entry has an icon whereas the av one does
not. After a few months of quite frequently hitting the wrong entry,
I'm trying to find a way to add an icon to it.
The challenge is that the shell extension can be configured somewhat
in the settings for it in the control center, otherwise I'd just tick
to disable the shell extension from within AVG and then set my own via
a context menu editor, which I have.
Anyway, I'll figure it out eventually (I hope). :)
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