Information about restoring cleared entries from Explorer's New menu
Monday, June 21, 2004 at 5:24 pm
Posted by Johan Natt och Dag
(2 messages posted)
For those of you who are not able to restore a deleted or missing entry according
to the instructions provided (even with TweakUI!), I have some additional info.
It could be the case that you have another application that "steals" an association.
You can most likely release it from within that application and then the default
approach (to add a ShellNew key) as explained will work.
However, if you would like to keep the association to the your favourite application
then you must create an extra ShellNew in a subkey to the extension key. For example,
if you have UltraEdit, then UltraEdit creates a UltraEdit.txt key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.
To create a new menu item you have to (re)create a ...\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 the extension (e.g. ".txt") in RegEdit and you will find the associations
created by your installed applications.
It took me a couple of hours to figure this out! Finally I've got my old new Text
Document back! :)
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