How do I remove Right-click > New > Context Menu Items?

jason404 · Jan 11, 2024

How can I remove New Context Menu Items in Windows? I used this tutorial from the Windows 10 forum to make this reg file:

INI:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00


; Bitmap image
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.bmp\ShellNew]


; Contact
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.contact\ShellNew]


; Rich Text Document
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.rtf\ShellNew]


; Microsoft Access Database
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.accdb\Access.Application.16\ShellNew]


; Google Docs
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.gdoc\ShellNew]


; Google Sheets
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.gsheet\ShellNew]


; Google Sheets
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.gslides\ShellNew]

After using the reg file, all of them apart from the Contact and Access Database ones reappear again after a few seconds. The tutorial doesn't mention anything about this problem, so I am assuming that Windows 11 does something different.

Is there any way to get rid of these? I have too many of them in the menu and I never need to use these ones, so I would like to remove them.

glasskuter · Jan 12, 2024

ShellNewHandler

Download ShellNewHandler for free. ShellNewHandler is an Open-Source Tool to enable/disable ShellNew entries, aka New File context menu entries from Windows Explorer in Vista and Windows 7. Check or uncheck items to enable a desktop right-click context menu item.

sourceforge.net

Standalone app. Run as administrator. It's an old app but it worked for me for most of the ones I didn't want.. Except if you use Google Drive. It will not get rid of Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides.They always come back.

jason404 · Jan 12, 2024

Oh yeah, I remember reading about the Google Drive thing a while back. I think this program must be just like NirSoft ShellMenuNew which I have tried before. I only found my Notion notes on this problem after making my post. I think the Bitmap template always come back whatever you do.

Thanks for the help.

dacrone · Jan 12, 2024

From @panaho

BMP

WIN + R
Write "regedit"
Enter
CTRL+F
Write "ShellNewDisplayName_Bmp"
Enter
Find @{Microsoft.Paint_()...()_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe? ms-resource://Microsoft.Paint/Resources/ShellNewDisplayName_Bmp}
Context menu
Modify
Delete "Value data"

TXT

WIN + R
Write "regedit"
Enter
CTRL+F
Write "/ShellNewDisplayName_Txt"
Enter
Find @{Microsoft.Paint_()...()_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe? ms-resource://Microsoft.Paint/Resources/ShellNewDisplayName_Bmp}
Context menu
Modify
Delete "Value data"

It works for me :wink:

Regards.

Rollback_Jockey · Jan 12, 2024

dacrone said:
From @panaho

BMP

WIN + R
Write "regedit"
Enter
CTRL+F
Write "ShellNewDisplayName_Bmp"
Enter
Find @{Microsoft.Paint_()...()_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe? ms-resource://Microsoft.Paint/Resources/ShellNewDisplayName_Bmp}
Context menu
Modify
Delete "Value data"

TXT

WIN + R
Write "regedit"
Enter
CTRL+F
Write "/ShellNewDisplayName_Txt"
Enter
Find @{Microsoft.Paint_()...()_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe? ms-resource://Microsoft.Paint/Resources/ShellNewDisplayName_Bmp}
Context menu
Modify
Delete "Value data"

It works for me

Regards.

There are discussions elsewhere where .BAT versions of this are being discussed.

dacrone · Jan 12, 2024

Discussed or one already written? Wouldn’t be hard to create..

Rollback_Jockey · Jan 12, 2024

dacrone said:
Discussed or one already written? Wouldn’t be hard to create..

Discussed, written and ongoing.

dacrone · Jan 12, 2024

Rollback_Jockey said:
Discussed, written and ongoing.

....ok then link it for OP...

Wisewiz · Jan 12, 2024

OP: @jason404

Removing "Text Document"' from 'New' context menu...

Hi I know there has been a thread about this, but it is now closed. I used the 2 tweaks to remove BMP and TXT from my Right click context menu in New and it worked fine. Today I noticed they came back, I ran the tweaks again and the BMP disappeared but TXT (text document is still there even...

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