modifying open with panel properties

[thomas]

dear listers,

thanks for your help and advice. when we double clicked on
an unknown file to open it, the 'open with' panel would
pop-up asking 'choose the program you want to use to open
this file'. at the bottom of the panel there is a tick box
that says 'Always use the selected program to open this
kind of file'. In my panel, the tick box is always ticked.
How can i modify (maybe via registry, but which and where)
the behaviour so that the tick box is always untick to
begin with.

thanks again for your help.

thomas

[Patrick]

thomas wrote:
> dear listers,
>
> thanks for your help and advice. when we double clicked on
> an unknown file to open it, the 'open with' panel would
> pop-up asking 'choose the program you want to use to open
> this file'. at the bottom of the panel there is a tick box
> that says 'Always use the selected program to open this
> kind of file'. In my panel, the tick box is always ticked.
> How can i modify (maybe via registry, but which and where)
> the behaviour so that the tick box is always untick to
> begin with.
>
> thanks again for your help.
>
> thomas

I,ve found that the tickbox is ticked sometimes but not others, I don't know
why.
It seems that you have got to keep your eyes open to it and untick it until
you know it's the right program.