By pressing the right mouse button on the empty space of the desktop or inside a folder, the contextual menu appears to perform some actions to organize the various icons (such as View, Group, Sort ) and, above all, the option to create new files .
By moving the mouse cursor over New, a list of possibilities appears so you can create a new text document, a new Word document, a contact, a Bitmap image, above all, a new folder and a new link.
The New command, which gives the possibility to create new files directly without having to start programs and applications, is really very comfortable even if among the various options there are always different ones that we will never use and that it would be better to remove.
You can then customize the New Windows menu to add or remove file types that you can create without opening the related programs, removing unnecessary and unnecessary items that you never use.
To modify the New Windows menu and remove unnecessary options, you can use an external program called ShellNewHandler .
Windows does not offer commands and settings to modify the New menu, which can only be changed by working on registry keys.
ShellNewHandler is an easy, free tool that makes this easier and works in any version of Windows, including Windows 10.
ShellNewHandler can be downloaded from the Sourceforge website and is used to enable or disable the items on the New menu.
After downloading, extract the Zip file and run ShellNewHandler.exe to open the program interface.
In a very simple way, it is possible to remove the cross from the items that do not interest them so that they no longer appear and then press the Apply button at the bottom to apply the changes.
Then right click on any empty area of the desktop or in any folder in File Explorer or Windows Explorer to see how the new menu has become more streamlined.
To add new types of files to be created using the New Windows menu, it is necessary to act manually, without external programs.
For example, if we were to add the ability to create new .xcf files to the menu with the GIMP program, we would have to do the following.
First of all, open GIMP, create a new xcf file by calling it template.xcf by setting an image size which will be the size of the images that will be created using the New menu.
Save the template.xcf file in any folder.
Then open the folder C: \ Windows \ ShellNew, authorizing access with administrator rights if necessary, and copy the template.xcf file saved before into it.
Now that the new file has been added, we need to add the reference to the registry keys.
In this regard, it should always be remembered that the Registry Editor is a powerful tool to be used with caution as incorrect use can make the system unstable or even unusable.
To open the Registry Editor, search for regedit from the Windows search bar or from the Start menu and press enter.
In the Registry Editor, expand the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT key in the left sidebar to find a whole series of subfolders.
Among these it is necessary to identify the one relating to the type of file that we want to be able to create from the New menu, in our case the GIMP .xcf .
Then right click on the .xcf, then do New> Key and call it ShellNew
Next, right-click on ShellNew, select New> String value giving it the name FileName .
Press twice on Filename on the right side of the screen and add, under the Value Data field, the name of the file saved previously, ie template.xcf and press OK.
Close the Registry Editor and restart your PC for the change to take effect.
On reboot, right click on an empty space on the desktop, go to New and the option to create a new xcf file with GIMP should appear.
this procedure basically allows you to save a creation model for new specific files such as those of GIMP.
The procedure does not work for all programs, since not all of them support the creation of new files outside the program.
To remove a menu item you can simply delete the ShellNew registry key and the template file added to the ShellNew folder.
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By moving the mouse cursor over New, a list of possibilities appears so you can create a new text document, a new Word document, a contact, a Bitmap image, above all, a new folder and a new link.
The New command, which gives the possibility to create new files directly without having to start programs and applications, is really very comfortable even if among the various options there are always different ones that we will never use and that it would be better to remove.
You can then customize the New Windows menu to add or remove file types that you can create without opening the related programs, removing unnecessary and unnecessary items that you never use.
To modify the New Windows menu and remove unnecessary options, you can use an external program called ShellNewHandler .
Windows does not offer commands and settings to modify the New menu, which can only be changed by working on registry keys.
ShellNewHandler is an easy, free tool that makes this easier and works in any version of Windows, including Windows 10.
ShellNewHandler can be downloaded from the Sourceforge website and is used to enable or disable the items on the New menu.
After downloading, extract the Zip file and run ShellNewHandler.exe to open the program interface.
In a very simple way, it is possible to remove the cross from the items that do not interest them so that they no longer appear and then press the Apply button at the bottom to apply the changes.
Then right click on any empty area of the desktop or in any folder in File Explorer or Windows Explorer to see how the new menu has become more streamlined.
To add new types of files to be created using the New Windows menu, it is necessary to act manually, without external programs.
For example, if we were to add the ability to create new .xcf files to the menu with the GIMP program, we would have to do the following.
First of all, open GIMP, create a new xcf file by calling it template.xcf by setting an image size which will be the size of the images that will be created using the New menu.
Save the template.xcf file in any folder.
Then open the folder C: \ Windows \ ShellNew, authorizing access with administrator rights if necessary, and copy the template.xcf file saved before into it.
Now that the new file has been added, we need to add the reference to the registry keys.
In this regard, it should always be remembered that the Registry Editor is a powerful tool to be used with caution as incorrect use can make the system unstable or even unusable.
To open the Registry Editor, search for regedit from the Windows search bar or from the Start menu and press enter.
In the Registry Editor, expand the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT key in the left sidebar to find a whole series of subfolders.
Among these it is necessary to identify the one relating to the type of file that we want to be able to create from the New menu, in our case the GIMP .xcf .
Then right click on the .xcf, then do New> Key and call it ShellNew
Next, right-click on ShellNew, select New> String value giving it the name FileName .
Press twice on Filename on the right side of the screen and add, under the Value Data field, the name of the file saved previously, ie template.xcf and press OK.
Close the Registry Editor and restart your PC for the change to take effect.
On reboot, right click on an empty space on the desktop, go to New and the option to create a new xcf file with GIMP should appear.
this procedure basically allows you to save a creation model for new specific files such as those of GIMP.
The procedure does not work for all programs, since not all of them support the creation of new files outside the program.
To remove a menu item you can simply delete the ShellNew registry key and the template file added to the ShellNew folder.
READ ALSO: Add options and commands to the right mouse button menus
