Thanx - it works as I want it to  This is the key:  Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.html\ShellNew] "Nullfile"="" "Data"=hex:3c,21,44,4f,43,54,59,50,45,20,48,54,4d,4c,20,50,55,42,4c,49,43,20,\   22,2d,2f,2f,57,33,43,2f,2f,44,54,44,20,48,54,4d,4c,20,34,2e,30,20,54,72,61,\   6e,73,69,74,69,6f,6e,61,6c,2f,2f,45,4e,22,3e,0d,0a,3c,48,54,4d,4c,3e,0d,0a,\   3c,48,45,41,44,3e,0d,0a,3c,54,49,54,4c,45,3e,20,4e,65,77,20,44,6f,63,75,6d,\   65,6e,74,20,3c,2f,54,49,54,4c,45,3e,0d,0a,3c,4d,45,54,41,20,4e,41,4d,45,3d,\   22,4b,65,79,77,6f,72,64,73,22,20,43,4f,4e,54,45,4e,54,3d,22,22,3e,0d,0a,3c,\   4d,45,54,41,20,4e,41,4d,45,3d,22,44,65,73,63,72,69,70,74,69,6f,6e,22,20,43,\   4f,4e,54,45,4e,54,3d,22,22,3e,0d,0a,3c,2f,48,45,41,44,3e,0d,0a,0d,0a,3c,42,\   4f,44,59,3e,0d,0a,0d,0a,3c,2f,42,4f,44,59,3e,0d,0a,3c,2f,48,54,4d,4c,3e And this is how it looks when opening the new HTML file:  <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> New Document </TITLE> <META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT=""> <META NAME="Description" CONTENT=""> </HEAD>  <BODY>  </BODY> </HTML>