Right click main context menu. How to create New Text Document Notepad

Brink said:

@akkha,


Would opening Notepad from the context menu instead work for you for this?

This way you could directly open Notepad, add what you want, and save as a text file.

No I don't want to open Notepad window immediatly.

I want default behaviour from Windows 10 -> right click / New / Text Document

But I wanted in -> right click / New Text Document .

Thank You

This is too much of a booger to figure out! Probably has something to do with Notepad being a frickin UWP App now!!!

I'd say, just right click on Desktop/most folders and hit w+t, quickest way I can think of!!!

akkha said:

No I don't want to open Notepad window immediatly.

I want default behaviour from Windows 10 -> right click / New / Text Document

But I wanted in -> right click / New Text Document .

Thank You

Save as "Context_Menu_NewTextFileAndOpen.reg" and open it

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\shell\NewTextFileAndOpen]
@="New Text File and Open"
"Icon"=hex(2):22,00,43,00,3a,00,5c,00,74,00,6f,00,6f,00,6c,00,73,00,5c,00,5f,\
  00,49,00,43,00,4f,00,5c,00,6e,00,6f,00,74,00,65,00,70,00,61,00,64,00,2e,00,\
  69,00,63,00,6f,00,22,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\shell\NewTextFileAndOpen\command]
@="cmd /c cd %V & echo.>NewTextFile.txt & start NewTextFile.txt"


[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\Background\shell\NewTextFileAndOpen]
@="New Text File and Open"
"Icon"=hex(2):22,00,43,00,3a,00,5c,00,74,00,6f,00,6f,00,6c,00,73,00,5c,00,5f,\
  00,49,00,43,00,4f,00,5c,00,6e,00,6f,00,74,00,65,00,70,00,61,00,64,00,2e,00,\
  69,00,63,00,6f,00,22,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\Background\shell\NewTextFileAndOpen\command]
@="cmd /c cd %V & echo.>NewTextFile.txt & start NewTextFile.txt"

Go in the Registry and change the ICON (ICO) to your custom icon:

Code:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\shell\NewTextFileAndOpen
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\Background\shell\NewTextFileAndOpen

When you don't wan't to open it you can customized to random file:

Code:

@="cmd /c cd %V & echo.>NewTextFile_%%random%%_%%date%%.txt

Image from Windows 10 (1809) Context Menu on Desktop




I've use following information:

How to Add or Remove New Folder Context Menu in Windows 10
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