Deleting "NEW FILES"

LASTGUY2GETPS2

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Mar 22, 2004
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You know when you right click on your desktop and go to New you can make new files...How do you remove some of those options? (Like lets say I didn't want Microsoft Word there)?
 

Shagga

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I believe as long as the application does not replace the shell entry when it starts up, you can just delete the entry in the registry. Mine is stored here -

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Discardable\PostSetup\ShellNew