Howard Goldstein wrote:
> Toshiba's USB bluetooth dongle driver (version 5.10.06(T)) installs a
> broken context menu entry in the registry. Breakage symptom is that a
> right click on a file in explorer stalls for 3 seconds before
> displaying the context menu when the registry entry is active. Normal
> performance has only a slight or no delay. This issue is on XP home
> SP2, 32 bit.
>
> How can I either prevent the driver - it's actually an application
> that's started by an Auto service - from installing the nasty context
> menu setting?

This is the answer I think. So control panel/adminstrative
tools/services. If it's in there set it to 'disabled'

On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:21:06 +0100, John of Aix wrote:
: Howard Goldstein wrote:
: > Toshiba's USB bluetooth dongle driver (version 5.10.06(T)) installs a
: > broken context menu entry in the registry. Breakage symptom is that a
: > right click on a file in explorer stalls for 3 seconds before
: > displaying the context menu when the registry entry is active. Normal
: > performance has only a slight or no delay. This issue is on XP home
: > SP2, 32 bit.
: >
: > How can I either prevent the driver - it's actually an application
: > that's started by an Auto service - from installing the nasty context
: > menu setting?
:
: This is the answer I think. So control panel/adminstrative
: tools/services. If it's in there set it to 'disabled'


Disabling and rebooting so the service never started doesn't help with
the problem (the poison context menu entry). I think I accidentally
led you down the garden path. I wasn't sure what info was relevant.

Does that mean it's coming in through loading a device driver?

Do you think I'm back to automating something to do a regedit or
invoke shellexview?

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:00:51 GMT, Howard Goldstein wrote:
: Disabling and rebooting so the service never started doesn't help with
: the problem (the poison context menu entry). I think I accidentally
: led you down the garden path. I wasn't sure what info was relevant.
:
: Does that mean it's coming in through loading a device driver?
:
: Do you think I'm back to automating something to do a regedit or
: invoke shellexview?

Just a followup with resolutions of the prob in case anyone else runs into
something similar:

- Toss the Toshiba bluetooth .exe in the "proactive defense" setting,
disallowed registry change list for "security" of Kaspersky blocks it
early enough in the boot process to keep Toshiba's BT driver from
dumping its broken context menu entry into the registry

- A better google search term, "registry xp .bat", returns a whole
slew of hits on scripted registry edit techniques. One of these would
have worked well to do a brute force automated deletion of the
offending entry at the end of the boot process.

i looked in shellexview and couldnt find a way to automate the deletion of "toshiba bluetooth extenstion" [sic] so i decided to make a registry (.reg) file to automatically delete the offending entries straight after satan spawns them - on windows startup.

here is the info to copy and paste in notepad \/ and then rename the file to deltoshiba.reg

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\tosBtShllExt]
@="{6BEF3D0B-53F0-4b0d-B91C-C19ED3D4C9D1}"

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\tosBtShllExt]
@="{6BEF3D0B-53F0-4b0d-B91C-C19ED3D4C9D1}"

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\tosBtShllExt]
@="{6BEF3D0B-53F0-4b0d-B91C-C19ED3D4C9D1}"

then make another notepad file containing the following info \/ and rename it to deltoshstartup.bat and place it in your startup menu

Code:

regedit /s delto****ba.reg

registered just so i could provided this info, in case it helps even just one person!

i hate having to use the lesser of evils that is the toshiba bt stack just so i can use my bt headphones (sony dr-bt22), roll on wireless usb i say!