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Assigning File Associations
I can remember, back in the WIN 3.1 and WIN95 days that you
could right click on a file and associate that extention with a program. For example, most people have MP3's on their computer, and the icon the shows up might be the Windows Media Player. Or if I have a JPEG file, I might get the Photoshop icon. I want to be able to change this at will. To be able to change .jpg to some other program other that Photoshop. I hope I explained this correctly. Thanks in advanced for your help. Chaz |
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Right-click on a file, then select: "Open With..."
-- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows XP - Shell/User Be Smart! Protect your PC! http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Chaz" wrote in message: ... |I can remember, back in the WIN 3.1 and WIN95 days that you | could right click on a file and associate that extention | with a program. | | For example, most people have MP3's on their computer, and | the icon the shows up might be the Windows Media Player. Or | if I have a JPEG file, I might get the Photoshop icon. | | I want to be able to change this at will. To be able to | change .jpg to some other program other that Photoshop. | | I hope I explained this correctly. Thanks in advanced for | your help. | | Chaz |
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"Chaz" wrote
.. I can remember, back in the WIN 3.1 and WIN95 days that you could right click on a file and associate that extention with a program. As Carey showed, you can do this in WinXP as well. However I find a little PC Mag utility called "Context Edit" to be very useful. It gives you complete control over your right-click menus. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1556349,00.asp http://tinyurl.com/4mpwt -- Bob Kanyak's Doghouse http://www.kanyak.com |
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Chaz typed: I can remember, back in the WIN 3.1 and WIN95 days that you could right click on a file and associate that extention with a program. For example, most people have MP3's on their computer, and the icon the shows up might be the Windows Media Player. Or if I have a JPEG file, I might get the Photoshop icon. I want to be able to change this at will. To be able to change .jpg to some other program other that Photoshop. It's almost the same in Windows XP. Right-click on a .jpg file and choose Open With. The only difference is that in Windows 98, you had to Ctrl-RightClick. -- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup |
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Try OpenExpert at http://www.baxbex.com/openexpert.html
Not quite what you're asking for, but nifty related utility as well. When you right click you can choose the application to launch the file in. "Ken Blake" wrote in message ... In , Chaz typed: I can remember, back in the WIN 3.1 and WIN95 days that you could right click on a file and associate that extention with a program. For example, most people have MP3's on their computer, and the icon the shows up might be the Windows Media Player. Or if I have a JPEG file, I might get the Photoshop icon. I want to be able to change this at will. To be able to change .jpg to some other program other that Photoshop. It's almost the same in Windows XP. Right-click on a .jpg file and choose Open With. The only difference is that in Windows 98, you had to Ctrl-RightClick. -- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup |
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Chaz wrote:
I can remember, back in the WIN 3.1 and WIN95 days that you could right click on a file and associate that extention with a program. For example, most people have MP3's on their computer, and the icon the shows up might be the Windows Media Player. Or if I have a JPEG file, I might get the Photoshop icon. I want to be able to change this at will. To be able to change .jpg to some other program other that Photoshop. There are two approaches. One is simple, but in effect makes a completely new association, rather than adding it to the list available at a right click. I don't think that is what you are after, but you do it by a r-click - Open With, and in that do not select from the list but take Other Program, browse to the one you want, and check the 'always use this' box. Other way, better when you already have programs associated, is to go to Control Panel - Folder Options - File Types and look down for the extension concerned. Highlight and click advanced when you can click Add to add to the list - browsing to the program, and adding any switches it may want. Once done, you can select which ever action you want as for a double click in the pane of Actions, and click Default (it will then appear in bold) - other actions will be there when you r-click a file of the extension There is a slight complication here with image files like JPG, which will go on opening in the Picture Viewer on a double click - there is a way round that if you want with a simple registry edit, deleting the subkey HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image\She llEx\ ContextMenuHandlers\ShellImagePreview -- Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies) Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit) |
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