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Old October 3rd 15, 04:42 AM posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
micky[_2_]
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Default how to change Target or command line for each file name extension

This is a Vista question, but since those groups are very quiet, I was
hoping 7 people would know the answer and would help me..

IIRC, XP, 98, and 3.1 had a utility screen, a tab on Folder Options,
that let me define details about what happened when I click on a file
with a particular filename extension.

All Vista has on the Control Panel is Default Programs, and it lets me
change the program but not change the command line associated with the
extension. What would be the Target in a shortcut.

Is there a screen or a hack that will let me change these things?

(In a hardware emergency I had to move from XP and start using a Vista
computer. Hoping to upgrade to 7 when another computer is ready.)


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Old October 3rd 15, 05:31 AM posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
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Default how to change Target or command line for each file name extension

micky wrote on 10/02/2015 11:42 PM:
This is a Vista question, but since those groups are very quiet, I was
hoping 7 people would know the answer and would help me..

IIRC, XP, 98, and 3.1 had a utility screen, a tab on Folder Options,
that let me define details about what happened when I click on a file
with a particular filename extension.

All Vista has on the Control Panel is Default Programs, and it lets me
change the program but not change the command line associated with the
extension. What would be the Target in a shortcut.

Is there a screen or a hack that will let me change these things?

(In a hardware emergency I had to move from XP and start using a Vista
computer. Hoping to upgrade to 7 when another computer is ready.)



The Target path in a shortcut is found on the shortcut's Properties
'Shortcut' tab

Vista through Win10 'Default Programs' allows one to choose the default
program, use all or selectively the programs file extension defaults, or
select a file type and use the default program and/or selectively change
the default program.

You also have the option when choosing a file (with a given extension)
in Windows Explorer to use cursor right click/Open With (Note: not all
file types will have the Open With option).


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Old October 3rd 15, 10:12 AM posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
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Default how to change Target or command line for each file name extension

On Fri, 02 Oct 2015 23:42:11 -0400, micky wrote:

This is a Vista question, but since those groups are very quiet, I was
hoping 7 people would know the answer and would help me..

IIRC, XP, 98, and 3.1 had a utility screen, a tab on Folder Options,
that let me define details about what happened when I click on a file
with a particular filename extension.

All Vista has on the Control Panel is Default Programs, and it lets me
change the program but not change the command line associated with the
extension. What would be the Target in a shortcut.

Is there a screen or a hack that will let me change these things?



The Windows Registry Editor -- but you may have to learn more than you
want to know about how this is organized in the Windows Registry.

To take an example -- .pps

1) Run regedit.exe, the Windows Registry Editor

2) In the left pane of the Registry Editor, expand
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pps
and select the ".pps"

3) In the right pane, there are one or more rows with columns
name, type and data.
Look at the row with name = "(Default)", and note what this
row has in the data column.

Let us say the data column has "OpenOffice.Pps"

4) Now, In the left pane of the Registry Editor, expand
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\OpenOffice.Pps\shell\open\comman d
where the "OpenOffice.Pps" is the same as in #3 above.
Select the "command".

5) In the right pane, look at the row with name = "(Default)".
The 'data' column has the command line you are looking for.

There is a bit more to it, but that should get you started.


NOTE: If you have ever used this to change the program
(right-click on file) Open with Choose default
that sets up different registry settings which...
(1) Take priority when launching from within Windows Explorer
(2) Don't have the same options to set the command line


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Old October 3rd 15, 09:26 PM posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
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In alt.windows7.general, on Sat, 03 Oct 2015 22:12:47 +1300, Ralph Fox
wrote:

On Fri, 02 Oct 2015 23:42:11 -0400, micky wrote:

This is a Vista question, but since those groups are very quiet, I was
hoping 7 people would know the answer and would help me..

IIRC, XP, 98, and 3.1 had a utility screen, a tab on Folder Options,
that let me define details about what happened when I click on a file
with a particular filename extension.

All Vista has on the Control Panel is Default Programs, and it lets me
change the program but not change the command line associated with the
extension. What would be the Target in a shortcut.

Is there a screen or a hack that will let me change these things?



The Windows Registry Editor -- but you may have to learn more than you
want to know about how this is organized in the Windows Registry.

To take an example -- .pps

1) Run regedit.exe, the Windows Registry Editor

2) In the left pane of the Registry Editor, expand
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pps
and select the ".pps"

3) In the right pane, there are one or more rows with columns
name, type and data.
Look at the row with name = "(Default)", and note what this
row has in the data column.

Let us say the data column has "OpenOffice.Pps"

4) Now, In the left pane of the Registry Editor, expand
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\OpenOffice.Pps\shell\open\comman d
where the "OpenOffice.Pps" is the same as in #3 above.
Select the "command".

5) In the right pane, look at the row with name = "(Default)".
The 'data' column has the command line you are looking for.


This is perfect. Thanks a lot. This will be very useful.

I've used regedit before, a little.

There is a bit more to it, but that should get you started.


You wouldn't know how to make a program opened this way open
*maximized*, would you? (I"ve installed Autosizer and MaxAll and
neither seem so far to make every program open maximized.)


Regedit for Vista has the advantage, I see, that it remembers what I was
looking at the last time I closed it. But it has the big disadvantage
that the icons for the "folder" that is open at the moment looks the
same as all the others. In XP it looked like an open book or something
when all the others looked like a closed whatever. Now I have to
look at the bottom line to see which "folder"'s contents the right pane
is displaying.

NOTE: If you have ever used this to change the program
(right-click on file) Open with Choose default
that sets up different registry settings which...
(1) Take priority when launching from within Windows Explorer
(2) Don't have the same options to set the command line


Interesting. I use Open With / Always quite a bit. At least I have
in the past. Now I'll consider possible interactions.

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Old October 4th 15, 11:10 AM posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
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Default how to change Target or command line for each file name extension

On Fri, 02 Oct 2015 23:42:11 -0400, micky wrote:
This is a Vista question, but since those groups are very quiet, I was
hoping 7 people would know the answer and would help me..

IIRC, XP, 98, and 3.1 had a utility screen, a tab on Folder Options,
that let me define details about what happened when I click on a file
with a particular filename extension.

All Vista has on the Control Panel is Default Programs, and it lets me
change the program but not change the command line associated with the
extension. What would be the Target in a shortcut.

Is there a screen or a hack that will let me change these things?

(In a hardware emergency I had to move from XP and start using a Vista
computer. Hoping to upgrade to 7 when another computer is ready.)


Somewhat end-user-friendly-but-powerful way, use Nirsoft FileTypesMan.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/file_types_manager.html

Otherwise, use the ASSOC and FTYPE command line programs included in Windows
(since Win2K, AFAIK) as pointed by John K.Eason. Click "Assoc" at left nav
pane for the ASSOC program guide.

In short:

- ASSOC manages the ID of the file types - where an ID (also a file type) is
associated to one or more file extensions. e.g. ID=txtfile, and
EXT=txt,text,lst,tex

- FTYPE manages the actions and descriptions of the file types - where an
action is the command line of the program to execute for the current file
being acted on including the action name (e.g. Open, Print, Play). The
description is the description of the file type (duh; e.g.: Text file, JPEG
image, ThatApp document).
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Old October 4th 15, 02:50 PM posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
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JJ wrote on 10/4/2015 6:10 AM:
On Fri, 02 Oct 2015 23:42:11 -0400, micky wrote:
This is a Vista question, but since those groups are very quiet, I was
hoping 7 people would know the answer and would help me..

IIRC, XP, 98, and 3.1 had a utility screen, a tab on Folder Options,
that let me define details about what happened when I click on a file
with a particular filename extension.

All Vista has on the Control Panel is Default Programs, and it lets me
change the program but not change the command line associated with the
extension. What would be the Target in a shortcut.

Is there a screen or a hack that will let me change these things?

(In a hardware emergency I had to move from XP and start using a Vista
computer. Hoping to upgrade to 7 when another computer is ready.)


Somewhat end-user-friendly-but-powerful way, use Nirsoft FileTypesMan.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/file_types_manager.html

Otherwise, use the ASSOC and FTYPE command line programs included in Windows
(since Win2K, AFAIK) as pointed by John K.Eason. Click "Assoc" at left nav
pane for the ASSOC program guide.

In short:

- ASSOC manages the ID of the file types - where an ID (also a file type) is
associated to one or more file extensions. e.g. ID=txtfile, and
EXT=txt,text,lst,tex

- FTYPE manages the actions and descriptions of the file types - where an
action is the command line of the program to execute for the current file
being acted on including the action name (e.g. Open, Print, Play). The
description is the description of the file type (duh; e.g.: Text file, JPEG
image, ThatApp document).

I've used File Types Manager and found it doesn't work for all the things I want.
ie. For PNG I like the default to be preview in the default windows photo viewer but right-click edit should open in
photoshop. I found http://defaultprogramseditor.com/ Default Programs Editor to work out much better.

NOTE: Both programs have the ability to jump to regedit to the point where the change is, and I find it great to
export the change after testing. Now I have a folder of .reg files that fix everything in a few clicks.
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Old October 4th 15, 05:24 PM posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
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On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 09:50:56 -0400, Big Al wrote:
I've used File Types Manager and found it doesn't work for all the things I want.
ie. For PNG I like the default to be preview in the default windows photo viewer but right-click edit should open in
photoshop. I found http://defaultprogramseditor.com/ Default Programs Editor to work out much better.

NOTE: Both programs have the ability to jump to regedit to the point where the change is, and I find it great to
export the change after testing. Now I have a folder of .reg files that fix everything in a few clicks.


That's indeed better. In a way, IMO.

The only missing function is the manager for the file type itself.
e.g. add and remove the file type. Not just edit an existing one.
Or change the file type description, and add new file extension(s) into a
file type.

But thanks. It'll be in my collection of tools, that's for sure.
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Old October 4th 15, 05:50 PM posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
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JJ wrote on 10/4/2015 12:24 PM:
On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 09:50:56 -0400, Big Al wrote:
I've used File Types Manager and found it doesn't work for all the things I want.
ie. For PNG I like the default to be preview in the default windows photo viewer but right-click edit should open in
photoshop. I found http://defaultprogramseditor.com/ Default Programs Editor to work out much better.

NOTE: Both programs have the ability to jump to regedit to the point where the change is, and I find it great to
export the change after testing. Now I have a folder of .reg files that fix everything in a few clicks.


That's indeed better. In a way, IMO.

The only missing function is the manager for the file type itself.
e.g. add and remove the file type. Not just edit an existing one.
Or change the file type description, and add new file extension(s) into a
file type.

But thanks. It'll be in my collection of tools, that's for sure.

I have both loaded too. You never know when one fills that little niche.
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Old October 4th 15, 11:36 PM posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
micky[_2_]
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In alt.windows7.general, on Sun, 4 Oct 2015 12:50:12 -0400, Big Al
wrote:

JJ wrote on 10/4/2015 12:24 PM:
On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 09:50:56 -0400, Big Al wrote:
I've used File Types Manager and found it doesn't work for all the things I want.
ie. For PNG I like the default to be preview in the default windows photo viewer but right-click edit should open in
photoshop. I found http://defaultprogramseditor.com/ Default Programs Editor to work out much better.

NOTE: Both programs have the ability to jump to regedit to the point where the change is, and I find it great to
export the change after testing. Now I have a folder of .reg files that fix everything in a few clicks.


That's indeed better. In a way, IMO.

The only missing function is the manager for the file type itself.
e.g. add and remove the file type. Not just edit an existing one.
Or change the file type description, and add new file extension(s) into a
file type.

But thanks. It'll be in my collection of tools, that's for sure.

I have both loaded too. You never know when one fills that little niche.


Thanks, guys. I will look at both of them after dinner. They sound
good.
 




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