Microsoft Office has the annoying habit of adding itself to various places in the Windows user interface. One of them is the popup menu of the Windows Explorer. It adds one entry for each of the installed programs to the “New” submenu.
Have you ever used them? I have only used that submenu for creating folders, shortcuts and text files, but never ever (apart from trying it once I think) for creating new MS Office documents.
So I have removed these entries several times (every time having to google the process) but every update recreates the entries and today I’ve had enough.
So here is a cmd file which will delete them (works for Office 2016 only). You will have to run it as administrator to work.
@echo off echo This batch file will delete the Registry entries for echo the "New" submenu of Windows Explorer echo added by MS Office 2016. echo This batch file must be run as Administrator. echo Continue? pause reg delete HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.docx\Word.Document.12\ShellNew /f reg delete HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.xlsx\Excel.Sheet.12\ShellNew /f reg delete HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pptx\PowerPoint.Show.12\ShellNew /f pause
It uses the built in reg command. The /f switch forces the deletion without confirmation. Maybe you want to remove it.
As always: Check any exectuable code you download from the Internet! It might damage your computer.