Use Tweakui which is available from microsoft. it can repair your default templates and associations.
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Browse All TopicsIn Windows Explorer, when I right-click in the right-hand frame and select "New" the pull down list contains the types of file I can create (e.g. HTML, WinZip, Word...). It used to contain "Text Document" but this has now disappeared. How do I get it back?
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by: CowboyJeeperPosted on 2002-11-20 at 11:32:40ID: 7474907
Warning be carful with registry editor.
Open registry from run type regedit
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
.TXT
ShellNew
Add a new string value to the right side named "NullFile"
May need to reboot the PC for this to work.