New Files

[persep]

Hi,

How can I delete with ccleaner the "New File Type" that aren't associated to any programs anymore, this is when you right click on the desktop you have a menu with types of files you can create. I thought it would be in the "File extension Issue" option of the "Registry Integrity" but I couldn't find the new file type there or anywhere else

 

Win Xp SP2 and ccleaner 1.26.218

[lokoike]

There must be some app on your computer that keeps adding said file type back into your registry. For example, I have a Sega Genesis emulator, and the ROMs it uses have the extension .SMD. So, when I run CCleaner, this extension shows up, and I remove it, and when I run CCleaner later on, it's not there. But, if I open up my emulator and play another game, sure enough, next time I run CC, there it is again.

 

So apparently, your unused file type is, in fact, still in use.

[Glenn]

Whether or not a file type is still in use, you can stop it from being listed in the right-click > New menu.

 

Use regedit and, in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, underneath the file-extension key for that file type, delete the ShellNew key. Change takes effect on reboot.

[persep]

Yes that's what I did at the end, I thought CCleaner would do it for me,but no

 

There were file types from programs I had previously uninstalled before.