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If you haven't cleaned it up yourself, chances are there are several useless and annoying items in the right-click "New" context menu. People rarely create Rich Text Documents for example. And I never create new LibreOffice document files with the right-click menu. Instead, I open LibreOffice and then do what I need. So here's how to get rid of some of these extra options in your Windows 10 right-click context menu. Remove New 'Avisynth Script' option The file extension is avs. With regedit, go to: Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.avs Delete the ShellNew folder. Remove New 'Rich Text Document' The file extension is rtf. Remove folder Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.rtf\ShellNew Remove New 'Bitmap image' The file extension is bmp. Remove folder Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.bmp\ShellNew Remove New 'OpenDocument Text' The file extension is odt. Remove folder: Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.odt\LibreOffice.WriterDocument.1\ShellNew Remove New 'OpenD...

When trying to set explorer to open .txt files with Sublime Text 3, I couldn't select Sublime Text at all. After browsing for the sublime_text.exe, the list of programs still didn't show Sublime Text as an option. It seems that Sublime Text 2 had left the registry in a broken state. The solution for this is to install CCleaner and running the registry cleanup, TWICE. After that, reinstall Sublime Text 3 . Then right-click on a .txt file (or whatever file type you want to open with ST3) and select Open with... - Choose default program... - Browse... and find sublime_text.exe. Now you can select Sublime Text.