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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. No need to install.

Features

  • reversed the display state of enabled context menu entries. thanks to ander1122 for suggestion.
  • added an Apply button and renamed the Save button to OK.
  • changed the tooltips for better readability.
  • a click on OK or Apply refreshs the shell immediately.

Project Samples

The Main and only Window disable the briefcase entry in context menu

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Categories

System Shells, File Systems

License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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  • shmuelw1 Edited 2024-09-11
    5 out of 5 stars
    Thanks for the great tool. Took me a while to find this.
  • srgrass Posted 2020-10-14
    5 out of 5 stars
    Thank you very much for the free open source program!
  • userangelo Posted 2020-08-31
    3 out of 5 stars
    Unsupported, on Win10 it works but I was not able to abilitate "new" for libreoffice files (apparently they are abilitated in the registry but still not present in Win 10 "new" context menù)
  • scanff Posted 2019-05-16
    5 out of 5 stars
    Nice easy single purpose program. It works, save me parsing the registry.
  • jbress Posted 2018-12-07
    4 out of 5 stars
    Thanks for this. Pretty useful and easy to use.
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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Windows

Languages

English

Intended Audience

End Users/Desktop

User Interface

Win32 (MS Windows)

Programming Language

C#

Related Categories

C# System Shells, C# File Systems

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2009-02-22
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