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Editing the Microsoft Security Essentials context-menu

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Mar 15, 20263049 views
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Problem

As all MSE users would know, the context-menu item that it adds to Explorer is really long, with one whole sentence "Scan with Microsoft Security Essentials...". Is there a way to edit this and shorten it? I figured out the the file is responsible for registering the context menu. I used ResEdit to…

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shellext.dll

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Fix for: Editing the Microsoft Security Essentials context-menu

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I was able to successfully rename the MSE context-menu entry by editing: The change took effect once I logged out and then logged back in.

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