ShellNew ... TCC.Batch?

[vefatica]

This was mentioned briefly in another thread.

What does it take to get a ShellNew entry for BTM files?

Following examples set by other keys, I have:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.btm]
@="TCC.Batch"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.btm\TCC.Batch]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.btm\TCC.Batch\ShellNew]
"NullFile"=""

and

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TCC.Batch]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TCC.Batch\DefaultIcon]
@="d:\\tc12\\tcc.exe,1"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TCC.Batch\SHELL]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TCC.Batch\SHELL\OPEN]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TCC.Batch\SHELL\OPEN\COMMAND]
@="\"D:\\TC12\\TCC.EXE\" /c \"%1\" %*"

I have logged out/in (which I've read shouldn't be necessary) and I don't have a ShellNew entry in my context menu. What does it take?

 

[vefatica]

Never mind. I got it. Also needed was some text for the ShellNew mechanism to
display. That took the form of

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TCC.Batch]
@="TCC BTM File"

On Tue, 24 May 2011 21:58:55 -0400, vefatica <> wrote:

|This was mentioned briefly in another thread.
|
|What does it take to get a ShellNew entry for BTM files?
|
|Following examples set by other keys, I have:
|
|
|Code:
|---------
|[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.btm]
|@="TCC.Batch"
|
|[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.btm\TCC.Batch]
|
|[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.btm\TCC.Batch\ShellNew]
|"NullFile"=""
|---------
|and
|
|
|Code:
|---------
|[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TCC.Batch]
|
|[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TCC.Batch\DefaultIcon]
|@="d:\\tc12\\tcc.exe,1"
|
|[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TCC.Batch\SHELL]
|
|[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TCC.Batch\SHELL\OPEN]
|
|[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TCC.Batch\SHELL\OPEN\COMMAND]
|@="\"D:\\TC12\\TCC.EXE\" /c \"%1\" %*"
|---------
|I have logged out/in (which I've read shouldn't be necessary) and I don't have a ShellNew entry in my context menu. What does it take?

 

[Charles Dye]

I have logged out/in (which I've read shouldn't be necessary) and I don't have a ShellNew entry in my context menu. What does it take?

It's been awhile, but ISTR that it took a reboot, or at least a restart of Explorer, before the change would be recognized.

 

[vefatica]

On Tue, 24 May 2011 22:15:59 -0400, Charles Dye <> wrote:

|It's been awhile, but ISTR that it took a reboot, or at least a restart of Explorer, before the change would be recognized.

Logging out/in does restart Explorer. But that wasn't necessary. See my
followup to my original post.

 

[vefatica]

Never mind. I got it. Also needed was some text for the ShellNew mechanism to
display. That took the form of

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TCC.Batch]
@="TCC BTM File"

And with the addition of that text a simpler version worked. To outline,

1. Give HKCR\TCC.Batch a default value containing descriptive text (as above)

2. In HKCR\.btm, make a key named "ShellNew".

3. In HKCR\.btm\ShellNew, make either

a. a REG_SZ value named "NullFile" with no data (you'll get an empty BTM file), or

b. a REG_SZ value named "FileName" whose data names a template file (no path necessary) placed (by you) in %WINDIR\ShellNew\

Refreshing the desktop (F5) a couple of times got it working.

Note that the "DefaultIcon" key in HKCR\TCC.Batch was not needed. It was one of the things I tried earlier to get the whole thing working.