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Old May 24th 10, 03:09 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Michael Romes
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Default new entry in context menu gone

Mike M schrieb:
Michael Romes wrote:

A while after installing new video drivers I noticed that the "new"
entry in my context menu (that which appears if I rightclick in a
folder) is gone.

When using Google I find a lot of articles about adding that entry to
Windows98SE by editing the registry - but I found nothing specific to
WIndows ME that I´m using.

Is the entry identical that needs to be added to the registry?


This used to be a quite common problem when installing video drivers
from nVidia where for some reason the installer (rather than the drivers
themselves) deletes more of the contents of the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\Directory key than just the branch
involved with New Folders.

I have attached a zip file containing a registry file (directory.reg)
that when extracted from the zip file and merged with the registry
should restore all of the functionality you lost when installing your
drivers.


Thankyou for your offer - however I hesitated to download and merge some
unknown file. But in the meantime I found the answer on the german
microsoft site:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=180257

or english
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/180257/EN-US/


and when I edited that entry into the registry using regedit my new
command was there again :-)