Re: unwanted shell extension options in IE

From: Alan Edwards (edwards_at_southcom.com.au)
Date: 05/26/04 

Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 08:53:16 +1000

Hmmm... I am wrong in my assumptions.
I didn't think I had the extensions in (I have never used them) but I
see now that I do have them and have had them since I installed the
bar, according to my install log. Sorry about that.

I don't have Page Info checked but that makes no difference as you
say.
When I installed the bar, these are the four Registry keys that were
created to form the Google menu extensions you mentioned:

[HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\MenuExt\Cac&hed Snapshot of Page]
@="res://C:\\PROGRAM FILES\\GOOGLE\\GOOGLETOOLBAR1.DLL/cmcache.html"
"Contexts"=hex:21,00,00,00

[HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\MenuExt\Si&milar Pages]
@="res://C:\\PROGRAM FILES\\GOOGLE\\GOOGLETOOLBAR1.DLL/cmsimilar.html"
"Contexts"=hex:21,00,00,00

[HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\MenuExt\Backward &Links]
@="res://C:\\PROGRAM
FILES\\GOOGLE\\GOOGLETOOLBAR1.DLL/cmbacklinks.html"
"Contexts"=hex:21,00,00,00

[HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\MenuExt\Translate Page]
@="res://C:\\PROGRAM FILES\\GOOGLE\\GOOGLETOOLBAR1.DLL/cmtrans.html"
"Contexts"=hex:21,00,00,00

I just closed IE, removed the keys, reopened IE and the menu
extensions are gone.
I don't see any way of removing them without resorting to a Registry
edit or by using an application like ToolbarCop.

The crossover between the Google Bar and another toolbar in
View-Toolbars is common but does not seem to cause any harm.

...Alan 

-- 
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html
 
In microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser, "hupjack"
<hupjack_nospamtoday_yahoo.com> wrote:
>Yeah that option to include or exclude page info was only modifying the
>presence of the button on the Google toolbar.  Unchecking the option didn't
>remove the entries from the right click menu..
>
>Not sure now if it's a result of my newly installed roboform
>http://m2.overseasky.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=21910&PN=1
>or if it was from trying ToolbarCop, but now the Google bar is busted such
>that choosing page info doesn't even toggle the button's presence in the
>toolbar..  In fact..  the Google toolbar was showing, but was "unchecked".
>Checking it made the Norton toolbar appear.. unchecking Norton made the
>Google toolbar disappear..  apparently these two got switched somehow?  I
>didn't make any changes with toolbarcop but it sure looks like my registry
>has some corruption.
>
>should uninstalling an reinstalling the Google toolbar fix this?
>
>-Ethan
>
>
>> Am I missing something?
>> I told you where the Google toolbar puts the entries in.
>> The help is clear enough about that.
>> You uncheck and it doesn't put them in.
>>
>> ...Alan
>>
>> -- 
>> Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
>> http://dts-l.org/index.html
>>
>> In microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser, "hupjack"
>> <hupjack_nospamtoday_yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Thanks Alan,
>> >
>> >Toolbar Cop shed some much desired light on the subject.  I could see
>> >exactly what each entry was associated with.  I had suspected the ones
>you
>> >mentioned were google toolbar associated ones but does the google
>> >documentation say specifically that it puts those in the context menu?  I
>> >certainly didn't see a check box to keep the the app from adding to the
>> >shell, but I guess that's what toolbar cop was made to address.
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >-Ethan
>> >
>>
>
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