BlueMe Posted September 24, 2005 Share Posted September 24, 2005 Does anyone know how can i rename these : I mean the New : " MS-DOS Batch File, Registration Entries.. etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueMe Posted September 24, 2005 Author Share Posted September 24, 2005 Then maybe an ideea ..something to start with ...anyone ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bledd Posted September 24, 2005 Share Posted September 24, 2005 (edited) after a quick F3 in regeditHKLM\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\txtfileedit the (Default) value from 'Text Document' to whatever you like if you change it to '123' it'll come out as New 123.txt Edited September 24, 2005 by bledd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkShadows Posted September 24, 2005 Share Posted September 24, 2005 (edited) To expound on the above, you can mine the registry for any file type, by it's extension.So let's say you want to change the file type name of "Windows NT Command Script" to "NT Command Script".First, look for the file extension in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ext. Where .ext equals the file extension that you are looking for. In this case we are looking for.cmd, so we go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.cmd.Now we look at the default value for this key and see that it is cmdfile. This is the name of another key that we must look up, again inside of HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. So now go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\cmdfile. The default value of this key is the File Type Name that appears in Windows Explorer. So edit it from "Windows NT Command" to "NT Command". You most likely will have to reboot for the change to take effect.EDIT 2005-10-03:See this thread to Add New Document Type to The Context MenuEDIT 2005-10-03: Edited October 3, 2005 by DarkShadows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueMe Posted September 25, 2005 Author Share Posted September 25, 2005 (edited) Thanks for the help guys ! It was actually a string value ("FriendlyTypeName") that i had to edit ...In the end will look like this : [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile]"FriendlyTypeName"="BatFile"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\regfile]"FriendlyTypeName"="RegFile"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\txtfile]"FriendlyTypeName"="TxtFile"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VBSFile]"FriendlyTypeName"="VbsScript"Looks better now :And 10x again Edited September 25, 2005 by BlueMe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redcloud Posted September 25, 2005 Share Posted September 25, 2005 I'm curious. I got as far as [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile][HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\regfile], etc., but I didn't see the string "FriendlyTypeName"=What's the story on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelsenellenelvian Posted September 25, 2005 Share Posted September 25, 2005 Cool idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueMe Posted September 25, 2005 Author Share Posted September 25, 2005 U'll have to create it, on some file types it is already on other not, the point of this tweak was to reduce my menu size.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bold_Fortune Posted September 25, 2005 Share Posted September 25, 2005 Man, this stuff is great. I'm saving all these posts. I'm really into cleaning up my context menus, and this is a plus. Thanks everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yzöwl Posted September 25, 2005 Share Posted September 25, 2005 Don't forget the 3rd party Application stuff in the 'New' menu, you'll find it hereHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Discardable\PostSetup\ShellNew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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