Clean up entries in "New" choices, context menu

When I right-click on a blank area of a directory Explorer window, and
choose "New", I get these choices:

* Folder
* Shortcut
* Bitmap Image
* Contact
* Microsoft Word Document
* Journal Document
* Microsoft Access Application
* Text Document
* Microsoft Excel Worksheet
* Compressed (zipped) Folder
* Briefcase

Does anyone know where to go in the registry in order to disable
about 3/4 of these?

Thanks for your time & attention to detail.

riprap

Hi,

They're not in one place. Each is the result of a shellnew subkey under the
associated file type in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT branch. For instance, a new
text document is found under:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt

Remove the shellnew subkey under this level to remove it from the "New"
listings.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"riprap" <> wrote in message
news:da43c861-f37e-4687-8aab-...
> When I right-click on a blank area of a directory Explorer window, and
> choose "New", I get these choices:
>
> * Folder
> * Shortcut
> * Bitmap Image
> * Contact
> * Microsoft Word Document
> * Journal Document
> * Microsoft Access Application
> * Text Document
> * Microsoft Excel Worksheet
> * Compressed (zipped) Folder
> * Briefcase
>
> Does anyone know where to go in the registry in order to disable
> about 3/4 of these?
>
> Thanks for your time & attention to detail.
>
> riprap

On Oct 18, 5:16*pm, "Rick Rogers" <r...@mvps.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> They're not in one place. Each is the result of a shellnew subkey under the
> associated file type in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT branch. For instance, a new
> text document is found under:
>
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt
>
> Remove the shellnew subkey under this level to remove it from the "New"
> listings.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVPhttp://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help -www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughtshttp://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "riprap" <riprap1...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:da43c861-f37e-4687-8aab-...
>
> > When I right-click on a blank area of a directory Explorer window, and
> > choose "New", I get these choices:
>
> > ** *Folder
> > ** *Shortcut
> > ** *Bitmap Image
> > ** *Contact
> > ** *Microsoft Word Document
> > ** *Journal Document
> > ** *Microsoft Access Application
> > ** *Text Document
> > ** *Microsoft Excel Worksheet
> > ** *Compressed (zipped) Folder
> > ** *Briefcase
>
> > * * *Does anyone know where to go in the registry in order to disable
> > about 3/4 of these?
>
> > Thanks for your time & attention to detail.
>
> > riprap

Hello, Rick::
Thanks for taking the time...your post was most helpful [:-)
I did a search within HKCR for "ShellNew", and it looks like all the
info I'm going to need
to clean up that right-click menu is there in those search results.
Thanks again!
riprap