Comments on: WAssociate repair file type associations

By: Alec

Alec — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:00:55 +0000

GRIN! – I’d fixed it for myself (on Win XP). I was trying to find tool for my fellow beta testers (and the developer) to use on Win-7.

btw: after further examination I’m pretty sure the installer is using ,1 for the index while the first index for an icon in a program is *actually* either “empty” or “,0″. I’ll see if I’m correct in the morning when the developer reads my email :-)

By: Martin Brinkmann

Martin Brinkmann — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:27:38 +0000

So you fixed it? Congrats then ;)

By: Alec

Alec — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:57:38 +0000

Thanks for the quick response Martin – it looks like that one while useful, doesn’t provide the depth needed it the particular problem I and those on other systems are experiencing.

If you’re interested – problem is that though apparently correctly set up Windows Explorer displayed the generic icon rather than that from the EXE. see http://screencast.com/t/9OND0wsUB04

after clicking the [Icon] button and navigating to the owning program WAssociate shows the reg-key it will update (hmmm – I should have checked that key value before I updated … oh well) see http://screencast.com/t/CTJrZCP2T3A9

after doing that Windows Explorer displays icons correctly.
… just realized … the space in “File Warden” may be the problem (no space shown in the error message in WAssociate).

No need to reply … thanks for your great work Martin and (in this case) getting me to reexamine the problem :-D

By: Martin Brinkmann

Martin Brinkmann — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:38:14 +0000

Have you tried this one here? http://www.ghacks.net/2010/02/06/fix-file-associations-after-virus-attack/

You could also take a look at this registry file that appears to restore all default Windows 7 file extensions: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/19449-default-file-type-associations-restore.html

By: Alec

Alec — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:44:02 +0000

Martin – a question from the past … I’m still using WinXP but trying to help debug an icon display problem with friends using Win-7 (both 32 + 64 bit).

Does WAssociate still work on Win-7? If only partially, any known limitations/caveats?
Do you know of any equivalent program (hopefully freeware) warranted to work on Win-7 (and Vista – not that anyone cares anymore)

By: Simon Templar

Simon Templar — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:25:13 +0000

hey Ghacks CN, great site. I’ve been using wassociate for more than 6 years now, I don’t think its been updated in a while now. But still, it works.

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