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Anonymous
2014-10-10T14:16:46+00:00

I just noticed that on my right click desktop context menu that "Shortcut" is not on the "New" sub menu with "folder" and various office products. Any idea how to get it back?

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Anonymous
2014-10-10T14:26:34+00:00

Create a registry file that contains...

---- Start copy below this line ----

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.lnk\ShellNew]

"NullFile"=""

"IconPath"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,\

  74,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,\

  00,68,00,65,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,2d,00,\

  31,00,36,00,37,00,36,00,39,00,00,00

"ItemName"="@shell32.dll,-30397"

"Handler"="{ceefea1b-3e29-4ef1-b34c-fec79c4f70af}"

"MenuText"="@shell32.dll,-30318"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.lnk\ShellNew\Config]

"DontRename"=""

---- Stop copy above this line ----

(Open notepad, paste the above in a NEW document, save the file as "something.reg" - where the file extension (.reg) is the important part, close notepad, right-click on the newly created REG file and MERGE it into the registry.  After a few seconds your right-click --> NEW --> Shortcut context menu option should return.)

How you lost it - given where it is - is a mystery to me though. heh

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