Cannot create a new txt file in explorer - please help

Curious... What's a journal document? It's in my context menu, but when I clicked to create a new one and made it and then clicked on it asked me what program to open it with so apparently it has no default program to be opened with.

Horray!

limneos said:

Try changing back the association to Notepad++, and if you lose the context menu again, there, you found the culprit.

Perhaps it's an incompatibility with Notepad++ and Win7 context menus. If changing to Notepad++ disables the New Text Document, let me know of the Path where notepad++.exe resides, and i will make you a reg file to use that instead.

Hello limneos, umm, well it all seems to be working well this morning :)
I cannot understand why.
Yesterday, When Winpatrol asked permission to change the association (from Notepad++ to MSNotepad) I agreed, and I could then create a new txt file per your reg file.
I tried again now and I can still create a new txt file. Hooray.
Clicking to open it, it opens in Notepad++. Hooray.
I checked the association using Set Associations, and it says Notepad++.
Nevermind, I think Winpatrol has got it's knickers in a twist.
So, at the time of writing all is well.

Maybe you can show me the path in the registry that you corrected.

btw the Program Files path is:
E:\Program Files\Notepad++
but I don't think you need that now.

Thanks again for all your help,
anykey

Dwarf said:

Hi Fizban,

The following images should explain what this is. Basically, it is a tool that allows you to make hand written notes with a tablet pen on a tablet PC.
This is how these files appear.

When you select one of these, the following appears. Note that the first time you run it, you will be asked to install a printer driver, for which you will require administrative credentials.

For more information, see Help.

Ahh, that explains why I'd never used them, never owned a tablet PC.

disable you UAC.

Reg fix file number 1 worked for me. I see it just puts in a registry entry for .txt that I saw somewhere on another forum but the other forum confused me.

I think the guilty culprit for me was Ccleaner. I love that program but will have to look more carefully when running the reg cleaner after an update. I've gotten so used to trusting it because it always works perfectly and keeps my registry clean of crap so I blindly clicked on fix problems without saving a backup. duh, not to brite on my part.

This must be something that several AV and reg cleaning programs have falsely called a bad registry entry because I saw the same problem in many places while searching for this.

Oh well, good to have a fix now.

Thanks