Add or Remove Default New Context Menu Items in Windows 10  

no solutions or 3rdparty tools yet?

Hi Shawn

Just wanted to point out that the following lines in the very first paragraph:

; Rich Text Document
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.rtf\ShellNew]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.rtf\ShellNew]
"Data"="{\\rtf1}"
"ItemName"=hex(2):40,00,25,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,46,00,\
69,00,6c,00,65,00,73,00,25,00,5c,00,57,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,6f,00,77,00,73,\
00,20,00,4e,00,54,00,5c,00,41,00,63,00,63,00,65,00,73,00,73,00,6f,00,72,00,\
69,00,65,00,73,00,5c,00,57,00,4f,00,52,00,44,00,50,00,41,00,44,00,2e,00,45,\
00,58,00,45,00,2c,00,2d,00,32,00,31,00,33,00,00,00

in the subject REG file are I think redundant?

Hello. My Windows 11 build came with no "Text Document" entry under "New". Is there a way to add it back? I'm using the classic context menu.

I wasn't confident enough to try it, considering you guys said that removing TXT doesn't work yet. Anyway, it's added, thanks!

Hi Brink and others,

I noticed recently that I was missing some key items under the 'New' context menu in Windows 10, particularly to create a new text document and a new Word document. Playing around with shellmenunew, ShellNewHandler and within the registry itself (following the guidelines found here: How to Add Other File Types to the New Item Menu in Windows 10’s File Explorer & Edit, Add, Remove items from New Context Menu in Windows 10) did not help, however using your registry file allowed me to restore the "New text document" option. Thanks a lot! I am, however, still missing the "New Word document" and "New Excel document" options – do you have any idea on how to fix this? Strangely enough, I can enable New Access document, New PowerPoint document and New Publisher document if I want to via ShellNewHandler, but Word and Excel refuse to show up...

Here is a screenshot of my current 'New' context menu:


Many thanks in advance for your help!

Arishem