How do you disable the context/right-click menu in Windows?

[leeroyMarv]

I've seen it done plenty of times before and was just wondering how to disable the context menu on my comp, which is running Win XP. In other words when you right click, the small shortcut menu does not appear.

P.S. thanks for any replies

 

[Scrat]

Try this article http://www.tucows.com/article/1187
It tell you how to disable specific programs/actions listed in the "right-click" menu.

 

[Scrat]

To Disable the entire menu, follow these commands.

To Enable/Disable for Current User

[Start] [Run] [Regedit]
Registry Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Modify/Create the Value Data Type(s) and Value Name(s) as detailed below.
Data Type: DWORD // Value Name: NoViewContextMenu
Setting for Value Data: [0 = Disabled / 1 = Enabled]
Exit Registry and Reboot

To Enable/Disable for Local Machine

[Start] [Run] [Regedit]
Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer
Modify/Create the Value Data Type(s) and Value Name(s) as detailed below.
Data Type: DWORD // Value Name: NoViewContextMenu
Setting for Value Data: [0 = Disabled / 1 = Enabled]
Exit Registry and Reboot

SOURCE: http://www.theeldergeek.com/enable_disable_desktop_context_menu.htm

 

[leeroyMarv]

Thanks Scrat, that's exactly what I was looking for.