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Remove unneeded items to speed contextual menu access System
When deleting un-needed applications, I'm always very careful to do full searches for related files, folders, plists, etc., in order to keep my system clean.

Just recently, I detected a noticeable performance lag accessing contextual menus. A quick peek into the Contextual Menus Items in my /Users -> user_name -> Library folder uncovered a folder for contextual menus left over from a demo of Extensis' Portfolio, which I had recently deleted after the deom expired. A quick disposal of the straggler brought instant performance gains to all contexutal menu accesses. Hope this will be helpful to others experiencing similar problems.
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Remove unneeded items to speed contextual menu access
Authored by: the_webmaestro on Jun 05, '03 11:17:38AM

Can this be used to re-order items? I use CopyPath almost exclusively, but I have other items, such as OnMyCommand, Open Terminal here... etc. I'd like to put CopyPath at the top of the list (although if I click toward the bottom of the screen, it'll show up at the top...)

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Remove unneeded items to speed contextual menu access
Authored by: mschaff on Jun 05, '03 07:06:20PM

OnMyCommand has it's own CopyPath function. Why not just use that. The OMCEdit program will let you move these items whereever you want.



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Remove unneeded items to speed contextual menu access
Authored by: krazykat on Jun 07, '03 06:15:47PM

I would like to be able to remove contextual menu items Provided by OSX. In particular(Help) which is right at the top and easy to hit by accident, and on my system, at least, loading (Help) can take forever. I would love to get it off the menu. Thanks for any help



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