gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » open expert http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:52:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Manage Open With Applications In Windowshttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/08/manage-open-with-applications-in-windows/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/08/manage-open-with-applications-in-windows/#comments Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:10:44 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/08/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 would for example think about opening a text document in Firefox instead of a text editor.

Open Expert is a free software program that can be used to manage the Open With applications in the Windows operating system. It adds the option to Configure Applications to the Open With menu which can be used to add, remove or sort the Open With applications.

A right-click on any file type and the selection of Open With > Configure Applications will display all applications that are currently configured for that file type. The add button provides the option to add a new applications while remove will delete an existing one. The up and down arrows can be used to sort the Open With menu to place the most commonly used applications at the top of it.

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Open Expert is a lightweight 650 Kilobyte application that can be run on any Microsoft operating system prior to Windows Vista (Windows 9x to Windows XP).

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