Specific registry key overwrites itself (cannot change it)

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miguelitoven

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Hello, i am trying to add "actions" to the menu "new".

Right now, the only "actions" are:
- New folder
- Shortcut
- Bitmap file
- Text file
- Excel worksheet
- Briefcase

I want to add:
- Microsoft Word document
- Wordpad document

I use them a lot in my job.

I read thousands of sites and tried adding the key: Shellnew and the chain: Nullfile to the extensions .docx and .rtf, but it didn't work.

So i read that there is this key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Discardable\PostSetup\ShellNew\Classes

And i found that its value:
.bmp
.lnk
.txt
.xlsx
Briefcase
Folder

is exactly what i have in the "new" menu, so i tried to add manually the extensions that i want (.docx and .rtf) to the value. Tried to display the menu, and nothing; but i realized that the change that i made just disappeared.

I found in a site that there was a guy with the same problem, and someone told him to make the change, close regedit and restart windows inmediately, without displaying the "new" menu. I did the same.

After restart, i opened the registry and the change that i did to the string "classes" was there; but as soon i displayed the "new" menu to see if it did the change, nothing; and the change that i did in the registry disappeared again.

I don't think is a permission problem. I have administration privilegies and I assured to having "total control" of that specific registry key.

Any help?
 
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miguelitoven

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I'm sorry pal, but nothing on that link has to do with my problem. I don't want to add actions to the context menu, but specifically to the menu "new" of the context menu.

Thanks anyway

Any other idea?
 
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miguelitoven

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I just visited the link you gave me

Tried repairing with: winword.exe /r as they suggest, but didn't work. Also tried repairing in Control panel, nothing.

I even tried many applications that i found on internet, but none of them let me add actions, only enable/disable the actions that already exist (word document and wordpad document aren't there). Tweak UI is no compatible with Windows 7, and the Application Compatibility Tool Kit looks complicated to me.

There should be a way to modify the registry to make those actions appear in the menu. I have the feeling that the problem is the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Discardable\PostSetup\ShellNew\Classes but, as i said, i cannot change it.

Thank you for your time.

Any other ideas are welcomed.

 
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miguelitoven

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I read the link. If i understood well, it is about other cases, in which if you are a limited user and try to edit a key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, the changes are automatically copied into a virtual section of the registry.

In my case, the key is in HKEY_CURRENT_USER.

Besides that, having administrator status, i suppose that i should be able to edit this key. When i click in "permissions", i can see that i have total control of that key, but for some reason it keeps overwriting itself everytime i display the menu.

 
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