Category: Laptop

Have you noticed that some applications like Antivirus, WinZip, and others, add
some items to the context menu when you right-click on a file or folder?

Apart from above, these software install shell extensions to add applications
in the right-click context menu. If you delete the appropriate shell extension
in the registry, you won’t get these additional menu items.

I am trying to remove the Open Presentation and Open Drawing items from the
Right Click “new” menu.

Note: Make sure you have made a proper backup
of your Registry. In case you have mistakenly removed the wrong folder, the
backup will come handy in restoring the lost folder.

to remove the New OpenDocument Text
from the menu, go to Registry Editor:

HK_CLASSES_ROOT > .odt > opendocument.WriterDocument.1

There you will see the ShellNew entry,
remove it. After you do it, refresh your desktop and you won’t see the New
OpenDocument Text entry anymore. Do that for any of the other filetypes you want
to remove.

I’ ve no idea, when this occurred but due to some technical malfunction, or
virus issue or might be uninstallation of any text editor; I lost the option to
create a New Text Document from the right click menu as well from the
File menu of Windows.

As the Context Menu is totally controlled by Registry entries. So I decided
to troubleshoot it.

After exploring net few moments, I found lots of ways to restore this and
tried almost all of them. Among working ones, few were easy to use I am posting
them here.

Option 1 – Download the registry key fix:

• Downlaod the registry fix: notepad.zip
  and save it to your desktop
• Inside the .zip archive you will find notepad.reg
• Double-click on notepad.reg and select Yes
  to import the information into your registry
• Log out of the computer and log back in (no need to restart)

Option 2 – Create your own registry fix file:

• Copy everything between the stars ***** into your
  clipboard.

• Click on Start (or Windows Button in Vista)
• Click on Run…
• Enter notepad.exe and hit Enter
• Paste the contents of your clipboard into your notepad document and save
  it as notepad.reg.  If you haven’t disabled “hiding file
  extensions” or you don’t know what that is, follow the instructions
  in Option 1
• Double-click on notepad.reg and select Yes
  to import the information into your registry
• Log out of the computer and log back in (no need to restart)

Option 3 – Make entries in Registry:

• Click on Start (or Windows Button in Vista)
• Click on Run…
• Enter regedit and hit Enter It will open
  the editor



• Navigate if the key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt\ShellNew\NullFile exists
  ? (Notice DOT before txt)
• If it doesn`t exist,create it. Just right click in the right hand pane of
  the ShellNew key,
  and select New/String value, then type: NullFile

Option 4 – Make manual entry for text type from user interface (easiest
one):

• I was missing the option from Windows File Toolbar too



• I opened My Computer > Tools > Folder Options > File
  Types. Windows had lost file associations for TXT files.





• I entered TXT in the File Extension field opted Text
  Document as Associated File Type and clicked OK.