Windows 10: Cannot Create New Folders

Howdy all,

So this problem popped up seemingly right after I switched over to Windows 10. As the title says, I cannot create new folders.

Clicking on the New Folder button results in a New Shortcut dialog box popping up. What's even weirder is that the context menu has no New Folder option, just two New Shortcut options. Cntrl+Shift+N also creates a new shortcut.

See here for details.

My guess is that something is up with the registry, and that everything "New Folder" points, incorrectly, to "New Shortcut". I have no idea how to fix this, however, so any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Also, for bonus points, I have to constantly ask for administrator privileges on my secondary hard drive, even though all users have full control over it and I am the only user on the computer. What might be causing this?

:)

 

Folders not opening & cannot create new folders in Win 10

Thank you it worked like a charm and I like that there are other options if I wanted to add or subtract some context menu options.

 

Folders not opening & cannot create new folders in Win 10

I replied on another forum on how I eventually fixed the problem. I don't know if you can search by user name to find it. I found a link to another forums question on a simular but same problem basically. It gave an outside link to a backup of the
directory which had become corrupted on my computer. I applied the backup and it fixed whatever got deleted or corrupted and now my computer works fine as before. (The backup was like a program and applied the fix without me having to do things like manually
find the particular missing or corrupted aspect of the directory.) I use programs like glary's utilities to keep things running smoothly but sometimes something gets corrupted anyway. Glad more computer smart people have addressed this issue. Check kris
Ver link too. Checking other suggested links lead me to the fix. (Some people suggested pure tech fixes with a ton of manual changes but I looked for a simpler fix like the directory backup which fixed it without me blindly changing things I'm not familiar
with.)

 

Hello StirrednotShake, *Smile

You might see if downloading and merging the .reg files for New Folder and Shortcut may be able to fix this for you.

*Arrow Add or Remove Default New Context Menu Items in Windows 10 Windows 10 Tutorials

 

That did the trick! If anyone else comes across this problem, check out this link.