Let us say that you are in a situation where you would like to change some default programs temporarily in Windows. You might want to do this to test out a new program without having to use the right-click context menu or the program’s file browser to open files with it or you might be [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Change default and preferred applications in KDE
In my last article, “Change default and preferred applications in GNOME“, I illustrated how to change the default applications that will launch in association with certain file types. Now it is time to reciprocate for the KDE desktop environment. Many people assume the KDE desktop environment is just as flexible as the GNOME desktop. In [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Set File Associations Without Writing To The Windows Registry
File associations are written to the Windows Registry by default. This usually happens during the installation of the operating system and computer software programs. Installing Microsoft Word will make it the default word processor on the computer system with file types like docx or doc opened by it by default. The same is true for [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Manage Open With Applications In Windows
Another option that pops up when right-clicking a file type in Windows Explorer is the Open With menu which displays alternative applications that can be used to open the selected file type. It does happen that the Open With dialog contains several applications which the user would never use to open that file type. Who [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Change File Associations with Types
Changing file associations in Windows XP and Windows Vista can be a tedious task. You first have to load the Folder Options in the Tools menu, select the File Types tab afterward, wait for the list to load, scroll down until you find the file type that you want to change, click on the change [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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WAssociate repair file type associations
I have written about a way to manually repair file type associations in Windows by using two commands and the Windows command line. While this works in most cases and is certainly faster than using a software for the matter it has its limitations.