How to disable ATI Catalyst Control Center ACE (ccc.exe) from context menu in windows

How to disable ATI Catalyst Control Center from context menu in windows

Posted by thinkdj on September 30th, 2007
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Remove ATI Control center from right menu 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)

17 Responses »

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March 8, 2010 at 2:57 am

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Aston says:

December 11, 2009 at 2:43 am

Sweet!

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Jason Smitty says:

August 29, 2009 at 9:41 am

NICE NICE NICE… LOVE IT

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Jason Smitty says:

August 29, 2009 at 9:40 am

Nice Fix. LOVE IT

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Debty says:

July 27, 2009 at 2:56 am

Ahaan… I will follow.

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Chrish says:

March 29, 2009 at 9:41 pm

Thanks for this! CCC>My patience

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January 23, 2009 at 9:25 am

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SteveS says:

December 23, 2008 at 2:54 am

thanks, i was so use to right click and selecting top action, this was really annoying. REMOVED!

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Ron says:

September 21, 2008 at 7:28 am

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.

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mark says:

June 11, 2008 at 10:31 am

thank you!!!!!

i hate invasive software… was it so difficult to ASK the user if wanted that thing there or not?

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neil says:

May 24, 2008 at 12:01 am

thanks .. this helped a lot..

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Sam says:

March 20, 2008 at 9:36 am

This worked great, just got the new ATI Radeon 2600, this was the only annoying this about getting the card!

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Chris says:

December 28, 2007 at 12:57 pm

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

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