RemoveProperties, a problem in the right click context menu
If, for some reason you don’t know, you started to see a “removeproperties” option in the context menu, when you right click on a file, or if you get an error message (that “this file does not have a program associated”, etc.) when you try to remove properties and personal information at the Security tab of a file’s properties, most probably a registry setting is corrupted.
Open Regedit and go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\removeproperties
You should see there the value: ProgrammaticAccessOnly=Apartment
Then at HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\removeproperties\DropTarget you should see the value: CLSID={09a28848-0e97-4cef-b950-cea037161155}
You can create these string values manually, or download a registry file to have the values entered automatically, and enjoy!
Download Remove Properties Registry File
Thank you. This saved me some time.
Thank you very very much! That really worked! That REG file was just what I was lookin for! Thanks a million!
Thank you! You solved my problem with the regedit.