Delete Unwanted Context Menu Items in WinXP
Within the right-click context menu is the option to create "New
" file items. While the list of available documents within the "New
" submenu often contains several useful file types, such as .txt
or .zip
, it also contains lots of unnecessary entries. So let’s delete any unwanted context menu items in WinXP..
To clean up the "New
" right-click context menu, open the Registry Editor, regedit.exe
, and Find all instances of "ShellNew
". Examine the search results. Every ShellNew
branch belongs to a specific type of file. As each ShellNew
branch corresponds to an entry in the "New
" right-click context menu, delete the ShellNew branch for each "New
" file type that you would like to remove.
And that, as they say, is that.

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One response to “Delete Unwanted Context Menu Items in WinXP”
sure, that’s easy. but what about the menu items that come back after you delete them – for example, a new PSD file or new FLA file (after opening Photoshop of Flash, respectively).