I am missing all the items in my standard explorer "New" menu you would see if you right-clicked on the desktop and went to New or in Explorer.exe itself from the file menu. I should have a basic program like notepad or bitmap, but I don't. I don't know when this first started occurring, I just noticed it one day. It does have the built in "New Folder" and "New Shortcut" options, but none of the added ones below the seperator. Does anyone know why this is happening and/or a way to solve it. I am running Windows ME. Could TweakUI do it? Plx help.

Email me with a responce if you want at: lusewire@hotmail.com.

-Dave

Yep, Tweakui will add whatever items you want to the NEW menu - and the tab to use in Tweakui is the NEW tab !
Krystyna

How do I fix it? Any ideas?

There is a registry key that controls the NEW menu
1. Run REGEDIT
2. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ CLSID
3. Look for a key called {D969A300-E7FF-11d0-A93B-00A0C90F2719}
4. That number should have a Default of Microsoft New Object Service
5. Under Default, the flags setting should be 0x00000000 (0)
4. Make sure that there is not a minus sign at the beginning of the numbers...it would look like {-D969A300 etc}
5. If you have the minus sign, right click the key and RENAME it by removing the dash in front of the number {D969A300 etc }

If you don't have the key with that number at all, then you will have to create it yourself, or import it from another computer.

Good luck...Krystyna