Followed you instructions, but still no notepad
"Ronnie Vernon MVP" <> wrote in message
news:C42CD8FE-AEE8-41A8-83E2-...
> Leroy
>
> Copy the text between the 2 dashed lines. Click Start/All
> Programs/Accessories/Notepad and paste the text into Noptepad. Click
> File/Save As and save the file as text.reg to your desktop. Right
> click the file and select the Merge option. Click yes on the registry
> prompts. Close everything and reboot the computer. This should add the
> New/Text Document back to that menu.
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
>
> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt\ShellNew]
> "ItemName"=hex(2):40,00,25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74 ,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,\
>
> 6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65 ,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,\
>
> 00,6e,00,6f,00,74,00,65,00,70,00,61,00,64,00,2e,00 ,65,00,78,00,65,00,2c,00,\
> 2d,00,34,00,37,00,30,00,00,00
> "NullFile"=""
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> --
>
> Ronnie Vernon
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
>
>
> "Leroy Forbes" <> wrote in message
> news:61A50BEB-39DB-49A4-A0A1-...
>> That is what I was trying the explain, I have no open new text document,
>> I
>> have all the usual stuff I.e. new folder, shortcuts, word docs, and so
>> on,
>> but for some reason, no new text file.
>> thanks for answering so quickly
>>
>> "Ronnie Vernon MVP" <> wrote in message
>> news:97CCC9D4-AA16-4A77-AC9F-...
>>> Leroy
>>>
>>> When you right click, select New / Text Document. This should open with
>>> Notepad.
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Ronnie Vernon
>>> Microsoft MVP
>>> Windows Shell/User
>>>
>>>
>>> "Leroy Forbes" <> wrote in message
>>> news:85B40AA0-F309-4E47-B979-...
>>>> When I wanted a quick document I would right click and select new and
>>>> choose notebook, for some reason this has now disappeared.
>>>> Any help on this would be much appreciated.
>>>
>>
>