When I'm logged in as a user that is not member of the administrator group the entry to create a new text file is missing from the right click "New" menu.
If I give the user administrator rights or start Explorer with admin rights the New → Text document menu entry magically appears.
As far as I can see the registry entries are correct.
What's the solution for the side effect of being a normal user in Windows 7?
Best Answer
I found several references to solutions to this problem. They all involve registry hacks -- most suggest to add some new entries to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Classes/ (which I believe are equivalent).
Specifically, the following reg hack seems to solve the problem for most folks:
Cut and paste into a new .reg file to auto-merge it into your registry. I recommend first checking each of the values/keys shown here in regedit to see what changes (if any) you are making.
However, this did not work for me, as I had a conflicting empty entry in HKEY_CURRENT_USER. In fact, the keys/values were all already in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, so the first set of changes didn't do squat. So... I also merged in an identical version of this using HKEY_CURRENT_USER, which worked: