Hide items from New option in context menu on desktop or Windows Explorer.
This setting enables you to hide selected items in the "New" option of the context menu of desktop or Windows Explorer.
Level: Recommended For Novice Users
Description:
The context menu appears when you right-click in windows explorer or on desktop. There is an option "new", which lets you create various documents, folder and shortcut. You can hide selected items in the "new" option of the context menu of desktop or windows explorer. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the desired applications file extension (like txt) registry path. Now, right click on the shellnew folder of the file extension key and modify its value to shellnew- i.e. Adding hyphen sign (-) at the end of the subkey name. However, you can remove the hyphen sign (-) from the subkey shellnew- to show the item back in from the context menu. The changes take effect after a restart or logoff. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.
The context menu appears when you right-click in windows explorer or on desktop. There is an option "new", which lets you create various documents, folder and shortcut. You can hide selected items in the "new" option of the context menu of desktop or windows explorer. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the desired applications file extension (like txt) registry path. Now, right click on the shellnew folder of the file extension key and modify its value to shellnew- i.e. Adding hyphen sign (-) at the end of the subkey name. However, you can remove the hyphen sign (-) from the subkey shellnew- to show the item back in from the context menu. The changes take effect after a restart or logoff. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.
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First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".
Second, go to the <b>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\(file extension)\]</b> key, right-click on the "shellnew" key and click on "Rename" to rename the key to "shellnew-".
Finally, the renamed key will look like below.
Registry Entries
- back to top- Path: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\(file extension)\]
- Location: Local Machine
- Value Name: ShellNew
- Data Type: Key
- Action Type: Rename
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