[embee19]

I'm trying to clean out several unwanted and unused context menus and their elements under Win 10 Pro. I have several context menu editors, but in some cases the info it provides is useless to me because I don't understand how to follow or trace GUIDs in the registry. Here's a general example:

HKCR\CLSID\{fe1290f0-cfbd-11cf-a330-00aa00c16e65}\AllContainers\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\{0D45D530-764B-11d0-A1CA-00AA00C16E65}

Can I somehow use either GUID to find the application or other object that it refers to? I'm finding a great many registry entries that contain nothing but a GUID and no CLSID or other info that would help me discover what they are referring to.

Thank you for your knowledge and time!

 

[Corday]

ShellEx is Shell Extension. IMO, don't mess with any of this. I can't see what you would gain, but I can see things going wrong even if you back up the registry.

 

[SpywareDr]

Did you try Google? {0D45D530-764B-11d0-A1CA-00AA00C16E65} - Google Search

 

[embee19]

ShellEx is Shell Extension. IMO, don't mess with any of this. I can't see what you would gain, but I can see things going wrong even if you back up the registry.

Thanks, Corday. But that GUID was just an arbitrary example, picked at random. I had no wish to alter it. I just wanted to know how to trace any arbitrary GUID back or forward in order to identify what it relates to.

 

[embee19]

Did you try Google? {0D45D530-764B-11d0-A1CA-00AA00C16E65} - Google Search

Hi, Doc! You have my considerable gratitude because looking it up on Google never occurred to me. And when I looked at some of the other highly rated results, I found "The Magic Number Database", which was a magnificent resource! I hope the other GUIDs I'd like to understand and find relations to it will also be in that database.

Thanks again!

 

[SpywareDr]