Customize Windows Explorer??™s New Menu
If you right-click an empty area of the desktop or any open folder window
and select New, you??™ll see special list of registered file types that can be created
on the spot. Choose one, and Explorer will create a new (usually empty)
file with the appropriate filename extension right there. Not surprisingly, you
can edit that list, and even make it do more than just create empty files.
Here??™s the easiest way to remove unwanted items from Explorer??™s New
menu:
1. Install Creative Element Power Tools (introduced earlier in ???Customize
Context Menus for Files???), turn on the Edit file type associations option
in the Creative Elements Power Tools Control Panel, and click Accept.
2. Right-click an empty area of your desktop, select New, and then select
one of the entries you??™d like to remove.
3. Right-click the new file and select Edit File Type.
4. Remove the checkbox next to the Show in Explorer??™s New menu
option.
5. The change will take effect immediately; right-click the desktop again
and select New to check it out.
If you want to do it by hand, you??™ll need to look in a few different places in
the Registry:
1. Open the Registry Editor.
2. Navigate to the key named for the filename extension you??™d like to
remove from Windows Explorer??™s New menu. For the .txt extension,
you??™d go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt.
File Type Associations | 143
The Registry
3. If you see a subkey here named ShellNew, rename it to Shellnew-
(Shellnew followed by a hyphen).
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