Unfortunately, the window doesn??™t display
everything in a convenient form. Double-click an entry to see everything as a single form.
Figure 22.6
Most Windows
systems include
hundreds of shell
extensions, some of
which you won??™t need.
Knowing as much as you do now about the various shell extensions, you can start to decide
which extensions to disable. The utility helps you with this process by highlighting shell extensions
that you??™ve already disabled, from vendors other than Microsoft, or of a suspicious nature. You also
have the descriptions and the purpose of the shell extensions to consider. Highlight any suspect or
less than useful shell extension and click Disable Selected Items to remove it from system use. This
action doesn??™t remove the shell extension completely, it simply makes the shell extension unusable.
If you find later that you don??™t want to keep the shell extension, you can get rid of it by using the
RegSrv32 utility described in the ???Adding and Removing Servers with the RegSvr32 Utility??? section
of Chapter 13. Simply locate the server file using the Filename column of the window.
WARNING Make sure any COM object you remove from the system doesn??™t provide services
that you need.
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