Did you ever come upon a file that you could not open in Windows because there was no program associated to the file type that could open it? Maybe you tried to open the file in a text editor, or in a program that you thought would be able to open it. Most users however [...]
- 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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File Types Manager
If you want to find out which file type is opened with which application you normally take a look into the File Types tab in Tools > Folder Options. Unfortunately though this menu that is displaying all registered file types is not listing lots of information especially if you consider that you cannot resize the window which means that you can only see several file types there and have to scroll a lot.
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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How to fix broken file associations
Did you ever have the problem that you wanted to change the file association of a certain file type but were not able to ? The normal way of right-clicking the filetype, clicking on Properties, then on the Change button next to the Opens With entry and browsing to the executable did not work for me because the executable was not added as the default software.