Context Menu, Right-Click, NEW

PaulW · Post by **PaulW** » Sun Jun 07, 2015 2:14 pm

I'm expect this question has been raised, but am unable to find it via search.

When I have a file explorer open (Win-7) and I right-click then select "New", I see several programs from which to select (Microsoft Office Word Document, Microsoft Office Excel Spreadsheet, etc.), but I do not see TextPad listed. I have "Context menu" checked in the TextPad Preferences/General tab.

How can I get TextPad as an option in the explorer context menu NEW selection?

ak47wong · Post by **ak47wong** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 1:38 pm

TextPad files are just text files, so you should be choosing Text Document in the New menu.

PaulW · Post by **PaulW** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 2:14 pm

Thanks for your response, but I do not have Text Document available as an option in the New menu.

ak47wong · Post by **ak47wong** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 11:36 pm

Sounds like a problem with your Windows setup and not related to TextPad as such. I'd suggest searching the web for a solution. A quick search brought up these, for example:

"Create new text document" option missing from context menu
Windows 7: 'New Text Document' missing?

PaulW · Post by **PaulW** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 2:08 am

Thanks, ak47wong, for pointing me in the right direction.

Looking at the first link you provided, I noticed that the value I had for HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/.txt/Default was "bftxtfile", which is different than that shown in the accepted answer (#4). I changed the value in my registry to "txtfile", closed regedit and "Text Document" magically appeared in the "New" menu item.

I'm not sure how the value got set to "bftxtfile". So I googled "bftxtfile" and discovered that "bftxtfile" is the file type used by Bluefish (web development editor), which I had installed some time ago to evaluate. That installation may have overwritten the "txtfile" value in the registry.