# Win98 right-click context menu **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 7, 2001, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win98-right-click-context-menu/48867 "2001-01-07T16:25:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win98-right-click-context-menu/48867/1 "2001-01-07T16:25:55Z")
I have Windows 98 running on my PC, and I’d like to “clean out” some of the file types under “New \> File” on the pop-up menu that appears when I right-click on the desktop. Does anyone know how to remove these? ---
**Author:** ![mblackwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win98-right-click-context-menu/48867/2 "2001-01-07T16:28:18Z")
I think you can find some of them in C:\windows\shellnew. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win98-right-click-context-menu/48867/3 "2001-01-07T16:32:02Z")
Hmm…I don’t actually have any files or folders called “shellnew”. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win98-right-click-context-menu/48867/4 "2001-01-07T16:43:37Z")
Ahh…thanks **mblackwell**. A bit of searching on the web for “shellnew” pointed me in the right direction. Turns out (if anyone else has this problem) that every “new” file type has a ShellNew entry in the Registry. ([More details](http://www.annoyances.org/cgi-bin/ce-showtopic/002_010))