Shorten the Finder's Contextual Menus.

Today's edit was submitted by Greg Sadetsky. Most people don't use many of the options in the Finder's popup contextual menus. This simple edit removes those menus, leaving you only the menus created by third party programs like FinderPop.

On the right is what my contextual menu looked like before the edit. I never used Get Info, Label, Favorites, or Duplicate. In fact, the only contextual menus I ever use are those offered by FinderPop, and StuffitCM, and CMTools.

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To remove the unused menus, make a copy of the Finder and open it in ResEdit.

Find the fmn2 resources and open them with a double-click.

Scroll down to ID numbers 14612 and 14614 and delete them.

That's it! Save your work and quit ResEdit.

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Replace the original Finder with the modified one and restart the computer.

Your contextual menus will now contain only items from third party software.