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Although I am able to go through the "regular" process to associate a program with an extension it doesn't work. After going through the browse process and selecting the program it brings me back to the "open with" window. The program I've selected does not appear in the "open with" window and it appears that it is simply ignoring me.
I've also tried the "Default Programs" route but wind up at the same "open with" window that still ignores me.
Suggestions?
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After playing around a lil I think I've figured it out.. [for me at least..]
The program that you're pointing to isn't registered correctly.
In regedit: Navigate to Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applicationsand find your .exe name.
Navigate under its name to shell>open>command. In the Default change its location to the actual location of the executable, hit okay and then try and reassociate the file type as you normally would.
Let me know if that doesn't seem to work.
There is no "Microsoft" Registry Cleaner. Probably the most recommended one is CCleaner (http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner).
Regards,
Hank Arnold
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Directory Services
http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/personal-pc-assistant/
On 8/2/2010 12:42 PM, crosseyedpenguin wrote:
Xandragnis,
Your solution did not work for me. I was having trouble with SciTE after downloading an upgrade. SciTE is distributed as an executable file with no installer. Editing the location did not help. An easy explanation is that I miss-keyed the new location, but I quadruple-checked my typing.
I eventually deleted the entire SciTE.exe entry. Then I was able to right-click, open with, and browse to the program (thereby creating a new registry entry).
Personally, I find having to use regedit an unsatisfactory solution. This is probably a case where a registry cleaner would have solved the problem. Is there a Microsoft registry cleaner that works with Security Essentials installed?
Regards, Hank Arnold (MVP - DS)
Xandragnis,
Your solution did not work for me. I was having trouble with SciTE after downloading an upgrade. SciTE is distributed as an executable file with no installer. Editing the location did not help. An easy explanation is that I miss-keyed the new location, but I quadruple-checked my typing.
I eventually deleted the entire SciTE.exe entry. Then I was able to right-click, open with, and browse to the program (thereby creating a new registry entry).
Personally, I find having to use regedit an unsatisfactory solution. This is probably a case where a registry cleaner would have solved the problem. Is there a Microsoft registry cleaner that works with Security Essentials installed?
I have done something to the file association for '.bat' files. I am used to being able to 'right-click' on the bat file and select either 'Open' or 'Edit'. Now, the 'Edit' option is not listed and the 'Open' option results in no action. I can change the association to Notepad or Wordpad or any other .exe I can browse to but I don't know what to use to cause the bat file to 'execute'. If I check the association with 'assoc .bat', it returns '.bat=batfile'
If I 'run' the bat file from a command window, everything works as it should.
Here is a registry entry for 'batfile' that shows both Open and Edit as choices I would expect to see with a right-click. This key looks just like the key on a WinXP system. Any help/pointers would be apprecaited.
Key Name: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\batfile\shell
Class Name: <NO CLASS>
Last Write Time: 7/14/2009 - 12:53 AM
Key Name: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\batfile\shell\edit
Class Name: <NO CLASS>
Last Write Time: 7/14/2009 - 12:53 AM
Key Name: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\batfile\shell\edit\command
Class Name: <NO CLASS>
Last Write Time: 7/14/2009 - 12:53 AM
Value 0
Name: <NO NAME>
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Data: %SystemRoot%\System32\NOTEPAD.EXE %1
Key Name: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\batfile\shell\open
Class Name: <NO CLASS>
Last Write Time: 7/14/2009 - 12:53 AM
Value 0
Name: EditFlags
Type: REG_BINARY
Data:
00000000 00 00 00 00 ....
Key Name: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\batfile\shell\open\command
Class Name: <NO CLASS>
Last Write Time: 7/14/2009 - 12:53 AM
Value 0
Name: <NO NAME>
Type: REG_SZ
Data: "%1" %*
Key Name: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\batfile\shell\print
Class Name: <NO CLASS>
Last Write Time: 7/14/2009 - 12:53 AM
Key Name: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\batfile\shell\print\command
Class Name: <NO CLASS>
Last Write Time: 7/14/2009 - 12:53 AM
Value 0
Name: <NO NAME>
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Data: %SystemRoot%\System32\NOTEPAD.EXE /p %1
Xandragnis et al,
I think your answer is the closest solution to my problem, but I am afraid to edit the wrong registry file...
I am no longer able to double click on my Windows 7 default file folders to expand them, either on the desktop or "my computer", and I have not been able to figure out the extension? Although the first line sayscmd? To open my file folders I have to right-click, then press open, and voilá.... Yet, when I attach a file to an e-mail, for example, I double click and zip right through them!
Any help will be greatly appreciated...
Thanks a bunch,
