{"id":23605,"date":"2020-04-17T18:03:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T17:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=23605"},"modified":"2020-04-17T18:03:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T17:03:27","slug":"how-to-delete-the-invasive-new-share-with-skype-menu-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2020\/04\/17\/how-to-delete-the-invasive-new-share-with-skype-menu-item\/","title":{"rendered":"How to delete the invasive new &#8220;Share with Skype&#8221; menu item"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how to delete the invasive new &#8220;Share with Skype&#8221; menu item, newly located on your right-click menu in your Windows PC.  This has been added without permission by the latest update for desktop Skype, and is a pointless distraction for anyone who just uses Skype for calls. <\/p>\n<p>There appears to be no way to turn it off from within Skype.  I can&#8217;t get it to show up in any context menu-editor except the Windows Registry Editor.<\/p>\n<p>How to remove it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Go to the Windows Start menu. In the search box type <em>regedit<\/em> to launch the Windows Registry Editor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> The key you want to delete is easily found under&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\*\\shell<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2020\/04\/delete.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2020\/04\/delete.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"157\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-23607\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Right-click on the key&#8217;s label (shown here highlighted in blue). Delete it. <\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> Exit the Registry Editor.<\/p>\n<p>The menu item is gone, but not gone for good. It will return when desktop Skype is next updated, and the key will thus need to be repeatedly deleted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how to delete the invasive new &#8220;Share with Skype&#8221; menu item, newly located on your right-click menu in your &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2020\/04\/17\/how-to-delete-the-invasive-new-share-with-skype-menu-item\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jurn-tips-and-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}