Stop *new*

[member11]

when you right click on a blank desktop, you see a context menu which has "new".

whenever you open an application, a format of that program appear in this "NEW" thing.

my questions are.

1-How can I stop windows from adding other formats in this "New" menu. I want to keep a default setting (folder,briefcase, and shortcut)for this menu.?

2-Where does this "new" menu locate in the registry.?

thank you

[firefoxthebomb]

Download and install Powertoys for windows xp from the MS website, once you install that use the Tweak UI utility and look under Templates, uncheck anything you do not want to show in that menu and click OK.

[boooggy]

well u not lose the new thingy. u still get the new with 2: folder and shorcut....

[KJxp]

Where is it located in the registry... no particular place. Any key under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT which contains a ShellNew key under it with the appropriate values will make an item appear in the New Menu. (That's why it sometimes is very slow loading. Windows is looking through all of those 11,395 keys!)

Like firefoxthebomb said, TweakUI is THE program for that kind of thing.

[spiritpyre]

Here's an example from one of my reg files:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

 ;-----
 ;----- Remove Entries from the "New" Context Menu
 ;-----
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.bfc\ShellNew]; Briefcase Files
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.rtf\ShellNew]; RichText Files
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ers\ShellNew]; Eraser Task Files
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.rar\ShellNew]; RAR archives
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.wav\ShellNew]; WAV files
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.zip\ShellNew]; ZIP archives

Unfortunately, as far as I know there's no way to remove all but said types from the New Menu (unless maybe you write a script or something but that's too much work for me )