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Adding a Right-click "NEW" option?

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by moonshine

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On the Desktop, right-click an empty space and choose New. A list of document types appears.

How do I add an option to this list (i.e. "MS Project file")?

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by moonshine

After installing Microsoft Project, the option to right-click and add a new "MS Project" was not an available option.

by thechas

If you wish to add a new application to the right click menu, you need to add a shortcut for the application to the windows\shell new folder.

There are freeware utilities out there to speed up the process.

If you have TweakUI installed, make sure that the app you want is not disabled in the shell new section.
I use TweakUI to disable shell new for apps that I don't intend to use from the context menu, to simplify my menus.

by moonshine

Can I install TweakUI on a Windows 2000 Pro platform? I have used it on Win95 and Win98, but am not sure if it behaves the same in W2K, so I did not install it.

by rhbd

The answer for this is in Microsoft TechTip Q140333. Basically save a blank doc of the application in the ShellNew folder (c:\windows\shellnew for win9x) then hack the registry to add a shellnew key to the Classes_Root for that document type.

by thechas

The latest build of TweakUI (1.33?) does support W2K.
It is missing the boot options of the earlier versions though.

Anser # 3 looks like the right thing to do to create a shell new.

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