When you open up Nautilus you will see plenty of files and folders. Most of those files are double-click-able icons when, when double clicked, will open with the associated application. Take for instance image files: When you double click on an image icon, by default, the application “Eye of GNOME” will open that file. The [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Aug 23rd, 2009
- Comments: 3
Change default and preferred applications in GNOME
File Extensions Identification
Every computer user will eventually encounter files that cannot be opened with the programs installed on the computer system. Experienced users might try to open those files in a basic text editor or perform a search on the Internet to find a program that can open files with those extensions.
Another possibility is the Open With [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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.
