{"id":3662,"date":"2016-08-02T13:20:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T07:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=3662"},"modified":"2020-12-08T05:27:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T05:27:40","slug":"new-menu-restore-default-items-shellnew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/new-menu-restore-default-items-shellnew\/","title":{"rendered":"Restore Default Items to the New Menu (ShellNew) in Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New menu helps you create a new file quickly in the current folder location. The New menu lists the following items by default in a clean install of Windows:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Folder<\/li>\n
  2. Shortcut<\/li>\n
  3. Bitmap image<\/li>\n
  4. Contact<\/li>\n
  5. Rich Text Document<\/li>\n
  6. Text Document<\/li>\n
  7. Compressed (zipped) folder<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If some of the default items in the New menu are missing in your system, here is a REG file that restores them back.<\/p>\n

    RELATED:<\/strong> Restore Missing New “Folder” to the Desktop Right-Click menu<\/a><\/div>\n

    Restore Built-In Items to the New menu<\/h2>\n

    Note that the REG file doesn’t remove any custom entries which you may have added. All it does is bring back the default items to the New menu.<\/p>\n

    Download new_menu_restore_default_entries.zip<\/a><\/p>\n

    Contents of the REG file<\/h2>\n
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    The New menu helps you create a new file quickly in the current folder location. The New menu lists the following items by default in a clean install of Windows:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":80521,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/compressed-zipped-folder-new-menu-missing\/","url_meta":{"origin":3662,"position":0},"title":"Compressed (zipped) Folder Missing in the New menu","author":"Ramesh","date":"March 19, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"When you right-click on the desktop and click New, the Compressed (zipped) Folder option may be missing. 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