How to rename the Windows 10 right-click New menu

For OCD people, I can't bear to see the style on the left side of the picture above, why is the full name of the PPT so long? Can't it be shorter?

Yes, it can. But it needs...

Modify the registry

Yes, the ancient Windows registry was born 30 years ago in Windows 3.1 and stored mainly system configuration information and later integrated the configuration of various programs. In short, you can't get rid of it.

Edit the registry file

Please backup the registry before modifying it.

Since there are several places in the registry that need to be modified, go straight to the file and open Notepad and type:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
 
; new file type
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pptx]
@="pptx"
 
; template
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pptx\ShellNew]
"FileName"=""
 
; file type name
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xyz]
@="New pptx Appinn file"

Then save this file as pptx.reg and double-click it to modify the longest PPT in the right-click New menu. If you want to change other files, replace pptx with other extensions, such as .docx, .txt, etc. The other content is the last line, feel free to change it.

Please backup your registry before modifying it.

Recovery

If you want to restore it, just use the backup registry file directly. There are many places to change, it is easy to be wrong, do not change if you do not have OCD ?