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Edit the 'open with' - 'chose default program' list
When I right click a PNG file and pick the 'open with' option and then 'choose default program', I get one item in the
list that is "%1". I'm going to admit that I was editing the programs that open and edit PNG files a few days ago and I guess something got mistyped. But now I have this idiotic "%1" item. Does anyone know where the list is stored. I'm picking the 'chose default program' option not so much to make a new default, as I will uncheck the 'do this always' box, but I want to one time pick a program that is not in that first list, so I have to go there to get more options. TIA. |
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Big_Al wrote:
When I right click a PNG file and pick the 'open with' option and then 'choose default program', I get one item in the list that is "%1". I'm going to admit that I was editing the programs that open and edit PNG files a few days ago and I guess something got mistyped. But now I have this idiotic "%1" item. Does anyone know where the list is stored. I'm picking the 'chose default program' option not so much to make a new default, as I will uncheck the 'do this always' box, but I want to one time pick a program that is not in that first list, so I have to go there to get more options. TIA. Would something like this help ? http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/open_with_view.html Apparently, there's some issue with Microsoft Office entries. So maybe it doesn't handle all possible formulations. But with a little luck, you'll slay that errant %1. Paul |
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On Mon, 25 May 2015 22:46:03 -0400, Big_Al wrote:
When I right click a PNG file and pick the 'open with' option and then 'choose default program', I get one item in the list that is "%1". I'm going to admit that I was editing the programs that open and edit PNG files a few days ago and I guess something got mistyped. But now I have this idiotic "%1" item. Does anyone know where the list is stored. What happens if you highlight the item and press del? -- Faster, cheaper, quieter than HS2 and built in 5 years; UKUltraspeed http://www.500kmh.com/ |
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Rodney Pont wrote on 5/26/2015 1:22 AM:
On Mon, 25 May 2015 22:46:03 -0400, Big_Al wrote: When I right click a PNG file and pick the 'open with' option and then 'choose default program', I get one item in the list that is "%1". I'm going to admit that I was editing the programs that open and edit PNG files a few days ago and I guess something got mistyped. But now I have this idiotic "%1" item. Does anyone know where the list is stored. What happens if you highlight the item and press del? clicking the item selects it and closes the window. Well, for all others but since "%1" is invalid, it just returns to the list to select another. |
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Paul wrote on 5/25/2015 11:46 PM:
Big_Al wrote: When I right click a PNG file and pick the 'open with' option and then 'choose default program', I get one item in the list that is "%1". I'm going to admit that I was editing the programs that open and edit PNG files a few days ago and I guess something got mistyped. But now I have this idiotic "%1" item. Does anyone know where the list is stored. I'm picking the 'chose default program' option not so much to make a new default, as I will uncheck the 'do this always' box, but I want to one time pick a program that is not in that first list, so I have to go there to get more options. TIA. Would something like this help ? http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/open_with_view.html Apparently, there's some issue with Microsoft Office entries. So maybe it doesn't handle all possible formulations. But with a little luck, you'll slay that errant %1. Paul Good idea, but I see no syntax errors and disabling all of them seems to have no effect. Right click still has an open with list and the 'chose default" still has that dummy. Thanks though. |
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On 26/05/2015 03:46, Big_Al wrote:
When I right click a PNG file and pick the 'open with' option and then 'choose default program', I get one item in the list that is "%1". I'm going to admit that I was editing the programs that open and edit PNG files a few days ago and I guess something got mistyped. But now I have this idiotic "%1" item. Does anyone know where the list is stored. I'm picking the 'chose default program' option not so much to make a new default, as I will uncheck the 'do this always' box, but I want to one time pick a program that is not in that first list, so I have to go there to get more options. TIA. When you right-click on your png file, you need to select "Open With" and you get something like in this pictu Open-With http://s11.postimg.org/ww06a35lv/2015_05_26_2033.png Click on More Options and then scroll down until you get "Look for another APP on this PC". You can now browse for your image editing program or whatever you prefer. |
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Good Guy wrote on 5/26/2015 3:40 PM:
On 26/05/2015 03:46, Big_Al wrote: When I right click a PNG file and pick the 'open with' option and then 'choose default program', I get one item in the list that is "%1". I'm going to admit that I was editing the programs that open and edit PNG files a few days ago and I guess something got mistyped. But now I have this idiotic "%1" item. Does anyone know where the list is stored. I'm picking the 'chose default program' option not so much to make a new default, as I will uncheck the 'do this always' box, but I want to one time pick a program that is not in that first list, so I have to go there to get more options. TIA. When you right-click on your png file, you need to select "Open With" and you get something like in this pictu Open-With http://s11.postimg.org/ww06a35lv/2015_05_26_2033.png Click on More Options and then scroll down until you get "Look for another APP on this PC". You can now browse for your image editing program or whatever you prefer. I guess everyone isn't getting the story. I can do all that, but the list in the picture you included has one line entry with "%1" and no name as an option to pick. THAT'S what I want to get rid of. I've got the right associations and I get the right program with 'more'. I know all this. It's that "%1" thing I'm after. |
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On 26/05/2015 20:47, Big_Al wrote:
Good Guy wrote on 5/26/2015 3:40 PM: On 26/05/2015 03:46, Big_Al wrote: When I right click a PNG file and pick the 'open with' option and then 'choose default program', I get one item in the list that is "%1". I'm going to admit that I was editing the programs that open and edit PNG files a few days ago and I guess something got mistyped. But now I have this idiotic "%1" item. Does anyone know where the list is stored. I'm picking the 'chose default program' option not so much to make a new default, as I will uncheck the 'do this always' box, but I want to one time pick a program that is not in that first list, so I have to go there to get more options. TIA. When you right-click on your png file, you need to select "Open With" and you get something like in this pictu Open-With http://s11.postimg.org/ww06a35lv/2015_05_26_2033.png Click on More Options and then scroll down until you get "Look for another APP on this PC". You can now browse for your image editing program or whatever you prefer. I guess everyone isn't getting the story. I can do all that, but the list in the picture you included has one line entry with "%1" and no name as an option to pick. THAT'S what I want to get rid of. I've got the right associations and I get the right program with 'more'. I know all this. It's that "%1" thing I'm after. Try the registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\ Explorer\FileExts\.extension\OpenWithList The usual caveat applies but you know the risk so I won't bore you with it. |
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Good Guy wrote:
On 26/05/2015 20:47, Big_Al wrote: Good Guy wrote on 5/26/2015 3:40 PM: On 26/05/2015 03:46, Big_Al wrote: When I right click a PNG file and pick the 'open with' option and then 'choose default program', I get one item in the list that is "%1". I'm going to admit that I was editing the programs that open and edit PNG files a few days ago and I guess something got mistyped. But now I have this idiotic "%1" item. Does anyone know where the list is stored. I'm picking the 'chose default program' option not so much to make a new default, as I will uncheck the 'do this always' box, but I want to one time pick a program that is not in that first list, so I have to go there to get more options. TIA. When you right-click on your png file, you need to select "Open With" and you get something like in this pictu Open-With http://s11.postimg.org/ww06a35lv/2015_05_26_2033.png Click on More Options and then scroll down until you get "Look for another APP on this PC". You can now browse for your image editing program or whatever you prefer. I guess everyone isn't getting the story. I can do all that, but the list in the picture you included has one line entry with "%1" and no name as an option to pick. THAT'S what I want to get rid of. I've got the right associations and I get the right program with 'more'. I know all this. It's that "%1" thing I'm after. Try the registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\ Explorer\FileExts\.extension\OpenWithList The usual caveat applies but you know the risk so I won't bore you with it. I tried looking at a few of those, and couldn't see any parameter in the commands (like a %1). I tried looking at HKCR\jpegfile and those have %1 in them. But I don't know what those ones are for. Like, when they get triggered. And those ones don't have an MRU (most recently used). Paul |
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Edit the 'open with' - 'chose default program' list
On 26/05/2015 20:47, Big_Al wrote:
Good Guy wrote on 5/26/2015 3:40 PM: On 26/05/2015 03:46, Big_Al wrote: When I right click a PNG file and pick the 'open with' option and then 'choose default program', I get one item in the list that is "%1". I'm going to admit that I was editing the programs that open and edit PNG files a few days ago and I guess something got mistyped. But now I have this idiotic "%1" item. Does anyone know where the list is stored. I'm picking the 'chose default program' option not so much to make a new default, as I will uncheck the 'do this always' box, but I want to one time pick a program that is not in that first list, so I have to go there to get more options. TIA. When you right-click on your png file, you need to select "Open With" and you get something like in this pictu Open-With http://s11.postimg.org/ww06a35lv/2015_05_26_2033.png Click on More Options and then scroll down until you get "Look for another APP on this PC". You can now browse for your image editing program or whatever you prefer. I guess everyone isn't getting the story. I can do all that, but the list in the picture you included has one line entry with "%1" and no name as an option to pick. THAT'S what I want to get rid of. I've got the right associations and I get the right program with 'more'. I know all this. It's that "%1" thing I'm after. You could also try the program recommended he http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/96077-open-clean-up-remove-programs.html I don't know about the program but if you decide to try it, you can tell us about it. |
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Good Guy wrote on 5/26/2015 4:34 PM:
On 26/05/2015 20:47, Big_Al wrote: Good Guy wrote on 5/26/2015 3:40 PM: On 26/05/2015 03:46, Big_Al wrote: When I right click a PNG file and pick the 'open with' option and then 'choose default program', I get one item in the list that is "%1". I'm going to admit that I was editing the programs that open and edit PNG files a few days ago and I guess something got mistyped. But now I have this idiotic "%1" item. Does anyone know where the list is stored. I'm picking the 'chose default program' option not so much to make a new default, as I will uncheck the 'do this always' box, but I want to one time pick a program that is not in that first list, so I have to go there to get more options. TIA. When you right-click on your png file, you need to select "Open With" and you get something like in this pictu Open-With http://s11.postimg.org/ww06a35lv/2015_05_26_2033.png Click on More Options and then scroll down until you get "Look for another APP on this PC". You can now browse for your image editing program or whatever you prefer. I guess everyone isn't getting the story. I can do all that, but the list in the picture you included has one line entry with "%1" and no name as an option to pick. THAT'S what I want to get rid of. I've got the right associations and I get the right program with 'more'. I know all this. It's that "%1" thing I'm after. You could also try the program recommended he http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/96077-open-clean-up-remove-programs.html I don't know about the program but if you decide to try it, you can tell us about it. Tried the Open With program, some previous post mentioned it. Oddly I disabled EVERY item and still got a list. Of course I'm in windows 8 and this was on a 7 forums, but should have worked. Also looked at the registry keys mentioned above by others and the List of OpenWith programs in the registry for PNG file includes Thunderbird and yet I don't see it when I click open with for a PNG file. So I'm totally confused now. I know it's got to be in here some place. I even searched for a data with just "%1" in it and found a few but they were all default icons. Ahhh screw it. I'll reload some year for bigger and better reasons and it'll be gone! |
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On 26/05/2015 21:54, Big_Al wrote:
Good Guy wrote on 5/26/2015 4:34 PM: On 26/05/2015 20:47, Big_Al wrote: Good Guy wrote on 5/26/2015 3:40 PM: On 26/05/2015 03:46, Big_Al wrote: When I right click a PNG file and pick the 'open with' option and then 'choose default program', I get one item in the list that is "%1". I'm going to admit that I was editing the programs that open and edit PNG files a few days ago and I guess something got mistyped. But now I have this idiotic "%1" item. Does anyone know where the list is stored. I'm picking the 'chose default program' option not so much to make a new default, as I will uncheck the 'do this always' box, but I want to one time pick a program that is not in that first list, so I have to go there to get more options. TIA. When you right-click on your png file, you need to select "Open With" and you get something like in this pictu Open-With http://s11.postimg.org/ww06a35lv/2015_05_26_2033.png Click on More Options and then scroll down until you get "Look for another APP on this PC". You can now browse for your image editing program or whatever you prefer. I guess everyone isn't getting the story. I can do all that, but the list in the picture you included has one line entry with "%1" and no name as an option to pick. THAT'S what I want to get rid of. I've got the right associations and I get the right program with 'more'. I know all this. It's that "%1" thing I'm after. You could also try the program recommended he http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/96077-open-clean-up-remove-programs.html I don't know about the program but if you decide to try it, you can tell us about it. Tried the Open With program, some previous post mentioned it. Oddly I disabled EVERY item and still got a list. Of course I'm in windows 8 and this was on a 7 forums, but should have worked. Also looked at the registry keys mentioned above by others and the List of OpenWith programs in the registry for PNG file includes Thunderbird and yet I don't see it when I click open with for a PNG file. So I'm totally confused now. I know it's got to be in here some place. I even searched for a data with just "%1" in it and found a few but they were all default icons. Ahhh screw it. I'll reload some year for bigger and better reasons and it'll be gone! Or you could create a new windows profile and the problem is gone!!! Overkill I suppose but better than to reload. From your new profile, you could backup the entire registry group for file extensions and restore it in the old profile to see if it works. Again risky so backup first before doing this. |
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Good Guy wrote on 5/26/2015 5:08 PM:
On 26/05/2015 21:54, Big_Al wrote: Good Guy wrote on 5/26/2015 4:34 PM: On 26/05/2015 20:47, Big_Al wrote: Good Guy wrote on 5/26/2015 3:40 PM: On 26/05/2015 03:46, Big_Al wrote: When I right click a PNG file and pick the 'open with' option and then 'choose default program', I get one item in the list that is "%1". I'm going to admit that I was editing the programs that open and edit PNG files a few days ago and I guess something got mistyped. But now I have this idiotic "%1" item. Does anyone know where the list is stored. I'm picking the 'chose default program' option not so much to make a new default, as I will uncheck the 'do this always' box, but I want to one time pick a program that is not in that first list, so I have to go there to get more options. TIA. When you right-click on your png file, you need to select "Open With" and you get something like in this pictu Open-With http://s11.postimg.org/ww06a35lv/2015_05_26_2033.png Click on More Options and then scroll down until you get "Look for another APP on this PC". You can now browse for your image editing program or whatever you prefer. I guess everyone isn't getting the story. I can do all that, but the list in the picture you included has one line entry with "%1" and no name as an option to pick. THAT'S what I want to get rid of. I've got the right associations and I get the right program with 'more'. I know all this. It's that "%1" thing I'm after. You could also try the program recommended he http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/96077-open-clean-up-remove-programs.html I don't know about the program but if you decide to try it, you can tell us about it. Tried the Open With program, some previous post mentioned it. Oddly I disabled EVERY item and still got a list. Of course I'm in windows 8 and this was on a 7 forums, but should have worked. Also looked at the registry keys mentioned above by others and the List of OpenWith programs in the registry for PNG file includes Thunderbird and yet I don't see it when I click open with for a PNG file. So I'm totally confused now. I know it's got to be in here some place. I even searched for a data with just "%1" in it and found a few but they were all default icons. Ahhh screw it. I'll reload some year for bigger and better reasons and it'll be gone! Or you could create a new windows profile and the problem is gone!!! Overkill I suppose but better than to reload. From your new profile, you could backup the entire registry group for file extensions and restore it in the old profile to see if it works. Again risky so backup first before doing this. Not a bad idea to export file extensions. I could do it in a VM to test. I'll have to give this a lot of thought. Thanks. |
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Big_Al wrote on 5/25/2015 10:46 PM:
When I right click a PNG file and pick the 'open with' option and then 'choose default program', I get one item in the list that is "%1". I'm going to admit that I was editing the programs that open and edit PNG files a few days ago and I guess something got mistyped. But now I have this idiotic "%1" item. Does anyone know where the list is stored. I'm picking the 'chose default program' option not so much to make a new default, as I will uncheck the 'do this always' box, but I want to one time pick a program that is not in that first list, so I have to go there to get more options. TIA. For anyone interested I fixed the issue. It was QuickTime. I found the answer in this link: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...9-458d9ef07036 Down on page 1 a post by S Malik replied on December 16, 2014 they basically said all the keys in [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\QuickTime.pict\shell\open\comman d] @=" \"%1\"" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\QuickTime.png\shell\open\command] @=" \"%1\"" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\QuickTime.pnt\shell\open\command] @=" \"%1\"" Etc etc are all set to simply "%1" I tried setting the string @=..... but that did not work, just showed the @=.... on the list. So I just deleted the entire QuickTime.png entry. Bingo list fixed. There is a later note that they just reverted back to an older copy of quicktime. And as I don't need quicktime (now), I'm just going to toss the whole program away!!! Signed: HAPPY CAMPER. LOL |
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Big_Al wrote:
Big_Al wrote on 5/25/2015 10:46 PM: When I right click a PNG file and pick the 'open with' option and then 'choose default program', I get one item in the list that is "%1". I'm going to admit that I was editing the programs that open and edit PNG files a few days ago and I guess something got mistyped. But now I have this idiotic "%1" item. Does anyone know where the list is stored. I'm picking the 'chose default program' option not so much to make a new default, as I will uncheck the 'do this always' box, but I want to one time pick a program that is not in that first list, so I have to go there to get more options. TIA. For anyone interested I fixed the issue. It was QuickTime. I found the answer in this link: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...9-458d9ef07036 Down on page 1 a post by S Malik replied on December 16, 2014 they basically said all the keys in [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\QuickTime.pict\shell\open\comman d] @=" \"%1\"" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\QuickTime.png\shell\open\command] @=" \"%1\"" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\QuickTime.pnt\shell\open\command] @=" \"%1\"" Etc etc are all set to simply "%1" I tried setting the string @=..... but that did not work, just showed the @=.... on the list. So I just deleted the entire QuickTime.png entry. Bingo list fixed. There is a later note that they just reverted back to an older copy of quicktime. And as I don't need quicktime (now), I'm just going to toss the whole program away!!! Signed: HAPPY CAMPER. LOL Interesting. I've QT installed (along with iTunes) on Win8x. The same (1%) QT registry key data intact for all the HKCR keys, yet no occurrence of the %1 being an available option in the 'open with - default program' list for png or any other graphic file. -- ...winston msft mvp consumer apps |
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