That??™s
where ShellExView comes into play. You can use this utility to not only view the shell extensions
installed on your system (you probably have no idea of how many there are) but also manage the
shell extensions so you get both functionality and performance. You can download this utility at
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html.
This utility is incredibly easy to use. After you download it, you can unpack it and start working
immediately. Figure 22.6 shows the initial window for this utility. As you can see, this newly formatted
and updated system contains 235 shell extensions (just think about how many an older system
has accumulated). The utility tells you the extension name, whether it??™s disabled, how it modifies
Windows, a description, version, product name, company, whether it appears as part of My
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Computer (Computer in Vista and Windows Server 2008), the desktop, or the Control Panel, filename,
Class Identifier (CLSID), file and CLSID creation times, whether this is a Microsoft product,
the file specifications the product affects, file attributes, and file size. In short, everything you could
possibly want to know about the shell extension.
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