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When I for example right click on my desktop and go to 'new', is there a way
to add more templates there? I used to with XP with TweakUI, but since it
is not compatible on Vista, what else can I do? I want to add a 'PNG Image'
template because I use that more than the 'Bitmap Image' template for what I
do.
 
When I for example right click on my desktop and go to 'new', is there a way
to add more templates there? I used to with XP with TweakUI, but since it
is not compatible on Vista, what else can I do? I want to add a 'PNG Image'
template because I use that more than the 'Bitmap Image' template for what I
do.
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Long time sine I played with these things but I seem to recall that the
New-menu is just a folder somewhere in the Windows-folder containing
empty files with different file-extensions. Find that folder and add a
file and you should be all set.
 
I couldn't find one. Now 'Send To', yes.
Erik Wikström said:
Long time sine I played with these things but I seem to recall that the
New-menu is just a folder somewhere in the Windows-folder containing empty
files with different file-extensions. Find that folder and add a file and
you should be all set.
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Regedit. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and find .png
Right-click on .png and create new key, name it ShellNew . Right-click on
the ShellNew and create new string value. Right click the new value,
Modify, value data box enter NullFile.

Bob's your uncle!!
 
Correction :

Regedit. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and find .png
Right-click on .png and create new key, name it ShellNew . Right-click on
the ShellNew and create new string value and name it NullFile.

Getting myself confuddled trying to do too many things at once ;o)
 
OK, forget that. Can't get it to actually work, even though it does create
the "new png image" option. Will experiment further.
 
Did not work for me. I right click, go to new, and still no PNG image or
the like. I even tried restarting my computer.
Jane C said:
Aaarrgghh......right click and open with Paint works. Paint.Net not.
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Strange, you have the same key in regedit that I have. Option for 'new png
image' came up on my right click as soon as I closed regedit. Didn't even
have to reboot.

File associations: what have you got for .png images? Both for open and
edit?
 
MS Paint for both.
Jane C said:
Strange, you have the same key in regedit that I have. Option for 'new
png image' came up on my right click as soon as I closed regedit. Didn't
even have to reboot.

File associations: what have you got for .png images? Both for open and
edit?
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Well, I finally got it to work! I hade to remove all the keys under .png
and also when you go to .png, the default string file had Photoshop.png and
the like for the data and I changed it to pngfile. After this, I added the
ShellNew again and made the NullFile string again and now it works.
 
That's my guess. The funny thing is that I never got PNG's to work on
Photoshop on Vista. (I'm using an older version - 5.5.) It works for the
most part though but it freezes up on PNG files. I also can't drag the
toolbox and the like in Photoshop 5.5 with desktop composition on. When I
shut off the desktop composition, I can drag them. Oh well, the solution is
simple. Either don't drag the toolboxes or put Photoshop in compatibility
mode and disable desktop composition.
 
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