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>>>Sergey,
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>>>This itself won't place the option on the context menu for the desktop (or other "New" menus). That's why you need to add the registry entry.
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>>That's correct but you can create "Microsoft DataLink Object" this way w/o making changes to the registry.
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>Sure, but the question involved getting to the "New" menu, that's why I mentioned it.

The question actually was "What happened to my MS Datalink Option?" and nobody answered it. :)