Can't add .html to Explorer's New context menu

[prescindor]

Does anyone know why it's not possible to add .html to the Explorer
new-file context menu?

I tried it using the recommended method of adding a ShellNew key to
HKCR/.html and adding an empty NullFile string value below that. No
dice. I also tried setting a FileName value to the name of a template
file in the All Users templates directory. That also failed.

I then tried it in TweakUI. TweakUI shows "HTML File" in its menu,
with the checkbox checked. Unchecking and rechecking the box has no
effect on the menu. It only causes ShellNew to change to ShellNew-
when unchecked.

No problem with other filetypes, such as .java.

What's special about .html?

 

[Wesley Vogel]

See...
To add the "New HTML document" to the New sub-menu
here...
Add items to the New menu (aka ShellNew entries)
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/shellnewadd.htm

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Wesley Vogel]

Try using .HTM

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[prescindor]

Thanks for your help, but I just tried .htm and couldn't get that to
work either. Same symptoms -- shows up normally in TweakUI but not in
the context menu. I thought perhaps it's a three-character vs four
extension length issue, but .htm doesn't work, while .java does.

I have four browsers installed: IE 6, Firefox, Mozilla, and Opera 9.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

See...
To add the "New HTML document" to the New sub-menu
here...
Add items to the New menu (aka ShellNew entries)
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/shellnewadd.htm

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

 

[Guest]

A simple method that worked for me was to just manually create a .html file
in notepad that included the code that I wanted to be in every new file and I
saved it in an out-of-the-way folder. Then in the Templates section of
TweakUI, I clicked "Create" and browsed to the file that I just created.