How to Remove “Next Desktop Background” Option from Windows 7 Desktop Context Menu?



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Recently we posted a detailed tutorial to hack Windows 7 Desktop context menu:

Hacking "Screen Resolution", "Gadgets" and "Personalize" Options

Here is another small tutorial to remove "Next Desktop Background" option from Desktop context menu which appears when you use Desktop SlideShow feature which allows you to run a SlideShow of selected wallpapers.

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Personally I don't like this extra option because it makes the whole context menu a bit large which doesn't look good. So here are the steps to remove it:

1. Type regedit in RUN or startmenu search box and press Enter. It'll open Registry Editor.

2. Now go to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

3. This key contains a sub-key "DesktopSlideshow".

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4. Delete it and the option will be removed from Desktop context menu.

PS: If you want a ready-made registry script to do the task automatically, download following ZIP file, extract it and run "Remove Next Desktop Background Option.reg" file to remove the option. There is also a "Restore. reg" file to restore the option.

Download Registry Script

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3 Comments

  • 3abboud

    Hi,

    Thank you for this tutorial :) But what I need to do is changing the text "Next Desktop Background", I want to translate it into french because in french 7 C it's not translated, so how can I do this?

    Thanking you in advance.

  • VG

    ^^ Thats not possible because the registry key only contains the reference to a CLSID which is hardcoded in the shell.

  • 3abboud

    Ok thanks, that's what I thought also.

    Yours.

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