Comments on: Add or Remove items from New Context Menu in Windows 11/10

By: Echeban

Echeban — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 13:53:00 +0000

In Win10 at least, a modification is needed if manually editing the registry. On “To add an item or file-type, search fo the file-type. Right-click on it and select New > Key and give it a name ShellNew. Now in the right pane, select New > String Value, name it NullFile and set its value at 1.” … should be “…and set its value at
” with nothing in it. Check entries for other known file types to verify what I am saying.

By: Josh Bensadon

Josh Bensadon — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 15:42:00 +0000

Why doesn’t Microsoft provide such a utility to actually customize and make their operating system more friendly?

By: Zack Barkley

Zack Barkley — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 09:54:00 +0000

THis is nice, but already knew…what would be nice is if you could modify the text, icon and automatically open the file that is created with one click in the New menu, since the main reason most users use this is to create a file at a specific location and then open the file to modify it as well. There must be some way since my Win8 system, the “Add Contact” ShellNew key does using a MenuText, IconPath, and Command path strings, but if you try to make these strings in the ShellNew for any other extension I’ve tried, it doesn’t work :(, so possibly these strings are program specific unfortunately. Any advice would be great.

By: LordMuddleford

LordMuddleford — Sat, 08 Oct 2016 15:45:00 +0000

Windows 10 – ShellNewHandler doesn’t work, destroyed existing entries. Had to use System Restore to fix them.

By: kashif

kashif — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 09:50:00 +0000

I want to ask that if I want to show my context menu only on My document folder than how can I do that. like empty recycle bin context menu only display when we right click on recycle bin thank you. I have tried lots of ways but those are not working..