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re: Question about 'Clear Unwanted Entries from Explorer's New Menu'
Friday, May 3, 2002 at 11:33 am
Posted by Alex
(299 messages posted)
So what is the question?
On Friday, May 3, 2002 at 11:09 am, shelby wrote:
>I have a question about Clear
>Unwanted Entries from Explorer's New Menu:
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re: Question about 'Clear Unwanted Entries from Explorer's New Menu'
Friday, May 3, 2002 at 11:58 am
Posted by shelby
(6 messages posted)
that's weird, it disappeared, I previewed it and it looked fine...anyways...I'm trying
to add new items to the new menu when you right click...I've tried doing it thru
Tweak UI but it doesn't work; I can remove items, but can't add them. Is there a
way to do it thru the registry?
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re: Question about 'Clear Unwanted Entries from Explorer's New Menu'
Friday, May 3, 2002 at 2:30 pm
Posted by Alex
(299 messages posted)
Yes.
You need to use regedit for this. In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes find the
extention of the file type you want to add to New menu. Let it be .xxx. In this case,
go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.xxx and create a new key ShellNew. Under
ShellNew, create a new string value named NullFile. You don't need to modify the
actual value, only name matters.
On Friday, May 3, 2002 at 11:58 am, shelby wrote:
>that's weird, it disappeared, I previewed it and it looked fine...anyways...I'm
trying
>to add new items to the new menu when you right click...I've tried doing it thru
>Tweak UI but it doesn't work; I can remove items, but can't add them. Is there
a
>way to do it thru the registry?
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re: Question about 'Clear Unwanted Entries from Explorer's New Menu'
Monday, May 6, 2002 at 7:02 am
Posted by shelby
(6 messages posted)
have tried this several times to no avail...have restarted after attemps and still
nothing...any other ideas?
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re: Question about 'Clear Unwanted Entries from Explorer's New Menu'
Monday, May 6, 2002 at 8:30 am
Posted by Alex
(299 messages posted)
You are probably doing something wrong. I've made a registry export for you to try.
Follow the instructions.
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.xxx]
@="AsciiFile"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.xxx\ShellNew]
"NullFile"=""
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1. Create a new text document (it will be New Text Document.txt, right?), open it
with Notepad, and paste the text above between the horizontal lines, excluding the
lines. Save.
2. Rename New Text Document.txt to NewXXXFile.reg. Right-click on it, select Merge
from the context menu and confirm.
3. Re-open Explorer (for me, it was not needed, but just in case), right-click on
the right-hand pane, scroll to New. In the context menu you should have 'Ascii File'
entry now among others. Select it. This will create a file named 'New Ascii File.xxx'.
I've just double-checked that it works on my W2K.
On Monday, May 6, 2002 at 7:02 am, shelby wrote:
>have tried this several times to no avail...have restarted after attemps and still
>nothing...any other ideas?
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re: Question about 'Clear Unwanted Entries from Explorer's New Menu'
Monday, May 6, 2002 at 10:34 am
Posted by shelby
(6 messages posted)
still nothing...thanks anyways...I think it has something to do with I'm trying this
at work and originally 2000 was setup so I was under lockdown then I got developer
access so I'm wondering if something is still set to not change or something
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re: Question about 'Clear Unwanted Entries from Explorer's New Menu'
Sunday, April 18, 2004 at 6:41 am
Posted by Ben Hull
(1 messages posted)
Someone please help...
My new menu has dissapeared altogether, from a right click, and from the file menu
in an explorer window.
Havent got a scooby-doo how to get it back.
Any ideas ppl??
thnx, ben.
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re: Question about 'Clear Unwanted Entries from Explorer's New Menu'
Thursday, June 17, 2004 at 11:28 pm
Posted by Janet
(1 messages posted)
I just downloaded WindConf.exe from http://www.earlyretiremint.com/freeware_motherload/freeware_system_programs.htm
which allows you to check/uncheck items you want to have shown from within the registry
- including the "New" shell items. You may want to try it...
I had so many entries in my "New" items list that it was taking minutes to show them
all. I used this to hide them, but it may also allow to display those that were 'turned
off' by accident.
I am using many different OSs, but it ran beautifully on Win 98... am planning to
try it on W2K, XP Home and Pro.
Janet
On Sunday, April 18, 2004 at 6:41 am, Ben Hull wrote:
>Someone please help...
>
>My new menu has dissapeared altogether, from a right click, and from the file menu
>in an explorer window.
>
>Havent got a scooby-doo how to get it back.
>
>Any ideas ppl??
>
>thnx, ben.
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re: Question about 'Clear Unwanted Entries from Explorer's New Menu'
Monday, June 21, 2004 at 5:15 pm
Posted by Johan Natt och Dag
(2 messages posted)
Now it is a couple of years ago you had this problem, but I just had the same problemen
on XP and after a couple of hours I think I figured it out. I though I would post
an answer to this thread (since I searched the web and could not find a good answer
anywhere)! At least this worked for me on XP. I hope it will work on 2000!
You probably have another application that steals the association. You can most likely
release it from within that application and then the default approach as explained
will work.
However, if you would like to keep the association to the your favourite texteditor
then you must create an extra ShellNew in a subkey to the .txt key. For example,
if you have UltraEdit, then UltraEdit creates a UltraEdit.txt key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.
Then you have to (re)create the ...\Classes\.txt\UltraEdit.txt\ShellNew key and there
add a String value (named FileName or NullFile or the like) according to the ordinary
rules.
Search for ".txt" and you will find the associations created by your installed applications.
On Monday, May 6, 2002 at 10:34 am, shelby wrote:
>still nothing...thanks anyways...I think it has something to do with I'm trying
this
>at work and originally 2000 was setup so I was under lockdown then I got developer
>access so I'm wondering if something is still set to not change or something
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re: Question about 'Clear Unwanted Entries from Explorer's New Menu'
Tuesday, June 22, 2004 at 6:32 am
Posted by shelby
(6 messages posted)
great, I was finally able to add .zip file to the New menu! thanks for the tip!
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re: Question about 'Clear Unwanted Entries from Explorer's New Menu'
Monday, February 20, 2006 at 4:21 am
Posted by Paul Galbraith
(1 messages posted)
Has anyone else had this problem? The "new" menu has entirely disappeared from explorer.
*Very* annoying.
On Sunday, April 18, 2004 at 6:41 am, Ben Hull wrote:
>Someone please help...
>
>My new menu has dissapeared altogether, from a right click, and from the file menu
>in an explorer window.
>
>Havent got a scooby-doo how to get it back.
>
>Any ideas ppl??
>
>thnx, ben.
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