Disable "Add to VLC media player's Playlist" Context?

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Disable "Add to VLC media player's Playlist" Context?

Postby 0r3n » 13 Jan 2012 09:24

Hi,
when i right click a folder on my Windows 7 platform, i see "Add to VLC media player's Playlist" line.
i searched through VLC's options and didn't find any way to disable it.
an i missing something?
thank you,
Oren.

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Re: Disable "Add to VLC media player's Playlist" Context?

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 13 Jan 2012 13:00

THis is changeable at install time.
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Re: Disable "Add to VLC media player's Playlist" Context?

Postby 0r3n » 13 Jan 2012 15:18

so i must reinstall to disable it?

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Re: Disable "Add to VLC media player's Playlist" Context?

Postby VLC_help » 13 Jan 2012 20:14

Yes. You can also manually edit registry, but reinstall is usually much easier and faster solution.

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Re: Disable "Add to VLC media player's Playlist" Context?

Postby f1database » 07 Mar 2012 22:24

where to edit the registry?
I'm missing the conext menu, alltough the option in the installer is used...

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Re: Disable "Add to VLC media player's Playlist" Context?

Postby kimiraikkonen » 07 Mar 2012 23:43

You can simply use that stand-alone app to disable unwanted context menu items even after VLC-installation:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shell_menu_view.html

HTH.

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Re: Disable "Add to VLC media player's Playlist" Context?

Postby VLC_help » 08 Mar 2012 21:40

Add to playlists are in
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\{EXT}\shell\AddToPlaylistVLC


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