Ever since I installed this updated version of ATI Catalyst Display drivers, i have been plagued by this terrible menace. The “ATI Catalyst Control Center” is the first item that pops up on my context menu. This can be really frustrating, especially for geeks who is so much adapted with the keystrokes for File>New.
Here’s a neat way to remove the item from the context menu for good.
Open regedit and goto
KEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\ACE
and remove the key named “ACE”. And voila… dilemma solved 
Here are the registry keys to disable it and to enable it again (just in case)
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Thanks for this! CCC>My patience
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thanks, i was so use to right click and selecting top action, this was really annoying. REMOVED!
Thanks! I hate buggy software (aka ATI CATALYST CONTROL CENTER)that leaves its marks behind even after uninstalling it. I’m going back to Nvidia.
thank you!!!!!
i hate invasive software… was it so difficult to ASK the user if wanted that thing there or not?
thanks .. this helped a lot..
This worked great, just got the new ATI Radeon 2600, this was the only annoying this about getting the card!
ATI Context Remover.bat
@echo off
title Remove ATI CATALYST(R) Desktop Context Menu Entry
echo.
echo Removing desktop context menu entry ‘ATI CATALYST(R) Control Center’.
regsvr32 /u /s “C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\atiacmxx.dll”
reg delete “HKCR\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\ACE” /f
reg delete “HKCR\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers” /ve /f
echo.
echo Done! Press any key to exit.
pause>nul
exit