![]() | ShellExView v1.11
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The ShellExView utility displays the details of shell extensions installed on your computer, and allows you to easily disable and enable each shell extension.
ShellExView can be used for solving context-menu problems in Explorer environment. For more information, read the following article: Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers
Date | Version | Description |
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27/02/2005 | 1.11 |
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25/11/2004 | 1.10 |
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23/08/2003 | 1.01 | Critical bug from previous version (1.00) was fixed: In some circumstances, after disabling a shell extension and then enabling it again, the shell extension continued to be disabled, even if ShellExView show that it's enabled. |
05/06/2003 | 1.00 | First Release. |
| Description |
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Extension Name | The name of the shell extension, as it appears in the Registry. |
Disabled | Tells you whether the shell extension is disabled. |
Type | The type of the shell extension. There are more than 10 different types of shell extensions. For more information about the types of shell extensions, see the table below. |
Description | Description of the shell extension item. This information is extracted from the DLL file that contains this shell extension. |
Version | Version of the shell extension item. This information is extracted from the DLL file that contains this shell extension. |
Product Name | The name of the product that created this shell extension. This information is extracted from the DLL file that contains this shell extension. |
Company | The name of the company that created this shell extension. |
My Computer | Tells you whether the "My Computer" folder contains this shell extension. This column is only relevant to "Shell Folder" extensions. |
Desktop | Tells you whether the "Desktop" folder contains this shell extension. This column is only relevant to "Shell Folder" extensions. |
Control Panel | Tells you whether the "Control Panel" folder contains this shell extension. This column is only relevant to "Shell Folder" extensions under Windows 2000/XP. |
Filename | The filename that contains this shell extension. |
CLSID | The CLSID of this shell extension. |
File Created Time | The creation time of the extension dll. You can use this field in order to find out when the extension was installed on your system. |
CLSID Modified Time | The Modified Time of CLSID in the Registry. Only available under Windows NT/2000/XP. |
Microsoft | Specifies whether the extension was created by Microsoft ('Yes' value) or by other company ('No' value). |
File Extensions | Specifies a list of file extensions (like .txt, .html) that use this shell extension. |
There are more than 10 types of shell extension, here's a small description for each type:
| Description |
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Shell Folder | Provides special system folders like "Printers", "Fonts", "Recycle Bin", and more... |
Context Menu | Provides the ability to add new items to the context menu of particular file type. |
Drag & Drop Handler | Provides the ability to add new items to the context menu that appears when you drag a file with right mouse button. |
Icon Handler | Provides the ability to dynamically assign icons to file objects. |
Copy Hook Handler | This type of shell extension is called when a file is moved, copies, renamed or deleted. |
Drop Handler | Provides the ability to control the "Drop" behavior of files. |
Data Handler | Provides the ability to copy files/objects to the clipboard. |
Property Sheet | Property Sheet dialog boxes. |
Search Handler | Provides the ability to create a system search engine (Like the standard "Search For Files or Folders" module) |
Column Handler | Provides the ability to add new columns to the details view of Explorer window. |
Thumbnail | Provides the ability to display images in "Thumbnail" view. |
Browser Helper Object | Provides the ability to customize and control the Internet Explorer browser. |
IE Toolbar | Provides the ability to add new toolbars into Internet Explorer (like Yahoo! Toolbar) |
Explorer Bar | Provides the ability to add Explorer bars to Internet Explorer. |
URL Search Hook | Browser extension stored under Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\URLSearchHooks. |
System | All other types of shell extensions that ShellExView utility cannot recognize are categorized as "System" type. |
/stext <Filename> | Save the list of shell extensions into a regular text file. |
/stab <Filename> | Save the list of shell extensions into a tab-delimited text file. |
/stabular <Filename> | Save the list of shell extensions into a tabular text file. |
/shtml <Filename> | Save the list of shell extensions into HTML file. |
/sverhtml <Filename> | Save the list of shell extensions into vertical HTML file. |
/xml <Filename> | Save the list of shell extensions into XML file. |
/NoLoadSettings | Run ShellExView without loading your last settings. (window position, columns size, etc. ) |