Customizing the File > New menu

[Idontwantspam]

To create your own template of a particular filetype for the New right-click context menu:

1) Open Regedit and browse over to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.extension , where .extension is the filetype you want to add in the New menu.

2) Create a new Key called ShellNew. Under this key, create a new String Value called FileName and set its value to the name of your template file.

3) Copy your template file to C:\WINDOWS\ShellNew

It didn't work.

Is there something I did wrong?

[[deXter]]

^ did you create the template file and copy it to the folder? For what extension are you doing this? You can only do it for existing, registered extensions.

[Idontwantspam]

^ did you create the template file and copy it to the folder? For what extension are you doing this? You can only do it for existing, registered extensions.

A .css. I killed explorer, relaunched it and still, it's not there. Then I logged off and back on. I'll see if restarting works. Yeah, I made it and put it in the folder.

Anyhow, after rooting around a bit, I realized that this can be done (supposedly) from TweakUI, the power toy. When I tried, it sorta-kinda worked. It got rid of the ones I wanted gone, but adding this CSS doc didn't work. I haven't tried with anything else - yet. Here's what it looks like, in case you wanted to know anyone. Oh, and log in as an Admin to do this.

Edited April 17, 2007 by Idontwantspam

[Idontwantspam]

Update:

After a reboot, it still isn't working. Any ideas why? And Yzowl, how did you do the original?

[[deXter]]

^ What changes exactly did you do in the registry? How did you go about it?

[gunsmokingman]

This will add to the addto menu a new ccs template

Save As AddCss.vbs

  Dim Act : Set Act = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
'/-> Add New Css File
   Act.RegWrite "HKCR\.css\ShellNew\FileName","template.css"

Edited April 17, 2007 by gunsmokingman

[Idontwantspam]

It didn't work.

OK, I copied and pasted to notepad, saved as a .vbs file, opened it and rebooted. No CSS in the menu. However, when I open TweakUI, it still shows New Cascading Style Sheet Document as one of the options. Not sure why this is...

This is a screenshot of what the registry currently says:

Template.css IS saved in C:\WINDOWS\SHELLNEW. Any clues, anyone?

[gunsmokingman]

It didn't work.

OK, I copied and pasted to notepad, saved as a .vbs file, opened it and rebooted. No CSS in the menu. However, when I open TweakUI, it still shows New Cascading Style Sheet Document as one of the options. Not sure why this is...

This is a screenshot of what the registry currently says:

Template.css IS saved in C:\WINDOWS\SHELLNEW. Any clues, anyone?

All I did was refresh the desktop and it was there.

Try to refreshen the desktop to see if that helps.

[Idontwantspam]

Refreshed, killed and reopened explorer, rebooted...

Still not working.

[lost_packet]

TweakUI (at least my version 2.10.0.0) will create these templates and delete unwanted ones from the "templates" menu. Saves a lot of twaddling around with VBS files or Regedit.

TweakUI is free from Microsoft:

Download TweakUI

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[Idontwantspam]

When I did it, I went to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/.css and made string value with the name FileName and the value template.css. Then, I put template.css in C:/WINDOWS/SHELLNEW. That didn't work, so I changed the said value to the complete path - C:/WINDOWS/SHELLNEW/template.css. Then, I found out about doing it in TweakUI. I did it there, and it put the registry to saying template.css again. It still has not shown up. lost_packet, I already said I tried TwakUI, but thanks anyway. It didn't work, either.