Re: AVG Free -- where does command come from that says "Scan with AVG Free" in context menu?
- From: MitchellWmA <nospammail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 07:57:58 -0400
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:52:49 -0500, "Vanguard" <no@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
"MitchellWmA" <nospammail@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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
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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