Add item in 'New'

[iflash]

Hi,

You know when u right click anywhere on the desktop, a popup menu popups and and when you select 'New' there, you can create certain new files? I, dunno why, i am missing the 'Text File' option in 'New'. So can anyone tell me how i can add that back and how to add other custom file types???

many thanx~!

[Megatron]

Go into the registry and open up the path HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.

Now, choose a file extension (say .txt). Add a folder called .txt (or whatever your extension name is). Now set the (default) value of the folder to a unique key, e.g: "MyApp.MyDocument" (Window's uses txtfile for a text document).

Now create another folder with the name of the unique key, and set the (default) value to whatever you want to appear in the Explorer context menu.

[iflash]

yep, but pls tell me what unique key should i put?

thanx

[DaoK]

Megatron we can add our program with that ?

[Megatron]

iflash: Put whatever you want for your own application. For a text file, it's good (but not mandatory) to use the default one for a text file, which is txtfile.

DaoK: Yes.