Does anyone know how can i rename these :

I mean the New : " MS-DOS Batch File, Registration Entries.. etc

Then maybe an ideea ..something to start with ...anyone ?

after a quick F3 in regedit

HKLM\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\txtfile

edit the (Default) value from 'Text Document' to whatever you like

if you change it to '123' it'll come out as New 123.txt

Edited September 24, 200520 yr by bledd

To expound on the above, you can mine the registry for any file type, by it's extension.

So let's say you want to change the file type name of "Windows NT Command Script" to "NT Command Script".

First, look for the file extension in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ext. Where .ext equals the file extension that you are looking for. In this case we are looking for.cmd, so we go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.cmd.

Now we look at the default value for this key and see that it is cmdfile. This is the name of another key that we must look up, again inside of HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. So now go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\cmdfile. The default value of this key is the File Type Name that appears in Windows Explorer. So edit it from "Windows NT Command" to "NT Command". You most likely will have to reboot for the change to take effect.

EDIT 2005-10-03:

See this thread to Add New Document Type to The Context Menu

EDIT 2005-10-03:

Edited October 3, 200520 yr by DarkShadows

Thanks for the help guys ! It was actually a string value ("FriendlyTypeName") that i had to edit ...

In the end will look like this :

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile]

"FriendlyTypeName"="BatFile"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\regfile]

"FriendlyTypeName"="RegFile"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\txtfile]

"FriendlyTypeName"="TxtFile"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VBSFile]

"FriendlyTypeName"="VbsScript"

Looks better now :

And 10x again

Edited September 25, 200520 yr by BlueMe

I'm curious. I got as far as

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\regfile], etc., but I didn't see the string "FriendlyTypeName"=

What's the story on this?

Cool idea.

U'll have to create it, on some file types it is already on other not, the point of this tweak was to reduce my menu size..

Man, this stuff is great. I'm saving all these posts. I'm really into cleaning up my context menus, and this is a plus. Thanks everyone!

Don't forget the 3rd party Application stuff in the 'New' menu, you'll find it here

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Discardable\PostSetup\ShellNew