This is due to the changed menu layout of Win 8 explorer. On my machine, if you press Alt in explorer, you will get overlaying images of buttons next to the corresponding menu which will be updated during menu navigation. You want to get to the Menu Home
and then choose New item
. On my machine, that's the key sequence Alt, R, W. But a subsequent shortcut to select text file
(like T) doesn't seem to exist. On the other hand, AHK can do what you want without relying on the explorer menu, but that requires a bit of coding:
#IfWinActive, ahk_class CabinetWClass
#n::
ControlGetText, dir, ToolbarWindow323
RegExMatch(dir, ":(.*)", dir)
dir := Trim(dir1)
FileAppend, , %dir%\MyNewTextFile.txt
return
The only downside of this is that it won't work per se for folders you opened via "Favorites" or "Libraries" from explorer. But if you need them, you could still write a workaround for that.