One of our readers asked how to add .PHP file type to the New menu in Windows. I’ve created a REG file that adds a PHP File entry to the New menu in Windows (2000/XP/Vista).
Add PHP file type to the New menu
Copy the following code to Notepad, and save the file as phpnew.reg. Double-click the file to run it.
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.php]
@="phpfile"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.php\ShellNew]
"NullFile"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\phpfile]
@="PHP File"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\phpfile\shell\open]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\phpfile\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\windows\\NOTEPAD.EXE\" \"%1\""
Now right-click on an empty area on the Desktop, and click New. PHP File should be listed in the New menu.
Note: The above REG associates .PHP files with Notepad. If you need to use a different editor for PHP files, alter the path accordingly in the REG file, or directly edit the following registry key:
More Information
We have covered this earlier in the following articles:
Add items to the New menu manually
Adding and removing ShellNew entries in Vista
Add or remove entries in the New objects list using TweakUI
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Just a note to everyone on Windows 7, this does not work for us. Many forums and blogs are saying this works, but it doesn’t. It will only work for .bmp and .txt files. I’ve been searching for a few hours on how to get .odt files to show up in the new menu, but haven’t found anything.
Hello, I did this for word document and It succeded, but the problem is then I try to close, it wants to save as plaint text document (txt), so I have to go through save as, find the correct format and only then save. Does anyone know how to make it save as doc format. When new file is created it has the ending of doc, but then I try to save it wants to make it txt
@whlooi: Yes. It can be used for any file type after altering the extension, Prog ID and the executable name.
Basically I can use this script for any file type? Rite?