It's been a while since I had a look at my Windows folder on my XPHome SP2
PC. Under System32 there is a folder called SHELLNEW, and all it has in it
are only a few very old MS Office document files from way before I bought the
machine secondhand.

Is it necessary to have a SHELLNEW folder?, and, can I safely remove it?
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CEC4

"CEC4" <CEC4@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> It's been a while since I had a look at my Windows folder on my XPHome
> SP2 PC. Under System32 there is a folder called SHELLNEW, and all it
> has in it are only a few very old MS Office document files from way
> before I bought the machine secondhand.

If you bought the machine secondhand, you flattened any existing system
hopefully.

> Is it necessary to have a SHELLNEW folder?

Yes, if you are interested in the templates in the context menu > New.
However, that folder is located in the %windir% folder by default rather
than the %windir%\System32 folder.

> and, can I safely remove it?

As a rule of thumb, removing system folders is not a good idea at all.

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