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And Finally

Reputation: 5704

Adding new filetypes to Windows 7's New context menu

I'm trying to add CSS, PHP, JS and HTML file types to the "New" right click menu in Windows 7. I know how to add the file types to the menu with ShellNew entries in the registry. But Windows doesn't give you any control over the display names of the new items - according to this the name's always taken from whatever application you've assigned to open the doc. I've set Notepad++ to open all of these file types, so I'm going to end up with several identical "Notepad++ document" entries in the menu, like this:

Windows Explorer context menu

Does anybody know if there's a way out of this stupid situation without installing any tweak utilities?

Thanks all! Fred

Upvotes: 7

Views: 6263

Answers (3)

Sarvap Praharanayuthan
Sarvap Praharanayuthan

Reputation: 4360

I was able to derive a solution from the answers above.

  1. I replicated the particular application (JetBrains PHPStorm in my case) registry entry.

    PHPStorm2019.1 -> PHPStorm2019.1.scss, PHPStorm2019.1.js.

  2. Now I changed the Default REG_SZ of PHPStorm2019.1.scss to SCSS File and PHPStorm2019.1.js to JavaScript file.

  3. Mapped .scss and .js to PHPStorm2019.1.scss and PHPStorm2019.1.js respectively.

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Upvotes: -1

mythofechelon
mythofechelon

Reputation: 3782

To rename a context menu > new's item (in Windows 7, at least):

  1. Open regedit.
  2. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.%ext% and note the (Default) value. This is the file extension's ProdID.
  3. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\%ProdID% (usually %ext%file) using the value obtained from step two. Set the (Default) value to whatever you would like the context menu new item to display as.
  4. Under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\%ProdID%, if there is a FriendlyTypeName value, rename it to FriendlyTypeName.old, as the (Default) value "is deprecated by the FriendlyTypeName entry"

I don't believe there is even a need to log out / restart, but if the changes don't take effect, log out and/or restart.

Upvotes: 3

Anders
Anders

Reputation: 101656

You could change the file type description for each file class manually.

  1. Look up the prog id under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.%ext% (The default value)
  2. Under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\%progid%, set the default value and/or the "FriendlyTypeName" string to the string you want.

You might have to log off for it to take effect. You should probably stay away from the Chrome and Notepad++ file type/association dialogs so they don't overwrite your strings.

Both Chrome and Notepad++ are open source, you can create a patch for them that use better names for the file types. (What is a "Chrome HTML Document" anyway, HTML5 + extra chrome juice? =) )

Upvotes: 2

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