Missing Items Right-Click New Menu

[Guest]

Hi,

I seem to be missing items from the right-click drop down menu in xp.
Specifically, the "New Text Document" and "New Rich Text Document" is
missing. When I launch TweakUI, the txt file is listed as one of the items
available to remove, but when I right-click on the desktop, it is not one of
the item in the list.

I've gone to the registry HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt\ShellNew\ and the NullFile
is present. The only thing that was weird, was in the OpenWithList folder,
there was a sub with Dreamweaver.exe. I did have an Adobe suite installed,
but I recently uninstalled it and I believe that's when all the problems
started.

Any help would be appreciated

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

To regain the "Text Document" entry under the New menu, download and apply the TXT File Association Fix (Restore default associations for TXT files) from Doug's site: http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Hi,

I seem to be missing items from the right-click drop down menu in xp.
Specifically, the "New Text Document" and "New Rich Text Document" is
missing. When I launch TweakUI, the txt file is listed as one of the items
available to remove, but when I right-click on the desktop, it is not one of
the item in the list.

I've gone to the registry HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt\ShellNew\ and the NullFile
is present. The only thing that was weird, was in the OpenWithList folder,
there was a sub with Dreamweaver.exe. I did have an Adobe suite installed,
but I recently uninstalled it and I believe that's when all the problems
started.

Any help would be appreciated