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Question: Using a .reg file, how do I completely remove a file type association? I tried e.g. deleting HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\myextension_auto_file but that's apparently not enough.
Background: On Windows Vista, I have a .reg file which successfully associates...
Started by Philipp Lenssen on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Furthermore....
To remove a file association, you need to delete the key for the file extension, e.g..
Want to use a .reg file to remove the file association? Why not just do it from the user interface out here .
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Using Win32-specific APIs, is there an easy way to start an external application to open a file simply by passing in the path/name of the file?
For example, say I have a file called C:\tmp\image.jpg. Is there a single API that I can call to tell Windows...
Started by Stéphane on
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LPCTSTR lpFile, // file to perform verb.
And registered file types, and perform all sorts of actions (verbs) on the file, depending on what lpOperation, // verb to do, e.g., edit, open, print.
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In C#, I'm trying to take some random file selected by a user, and determine the Windows Association for the program.
I'd like to use this to provide some helpful information to the user about the program which will run.
This is a portfolio tool where...
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This is a duplicate of File Associations in C# .
Failing that, System File Association on Codeproject looks to have the code to retrieve file association info.
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I somehow have set the default filetype association for a filetype in windows 7. It doesn't appear to be possible to delete it from the "change the file type associated with a file extention" options screen.
Started by Christothes on
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To delete the association for the .XYZ file type just enter:
ASSOC .XYZ=
CreativeFind the file extension in question under the
*HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows as the extension you want to un....
With the ASSOC command.
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I am in the process of writing a cross platform Swing based application in which I want to utilize a file association which has been registered with the OS.
So iv got to the point where I can click on a file and my app loads, but what I need to know is...
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This is to have the file association run your Java app via a script or batch file, and have the batch file passI'm not positive, but I'd expect that the name of the file you're processing by file click will end....
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I'm quite experienced with how file association works for opening files on Mac OS X.
I recall reading somewhere that OS X keeps not only the information about which apps can open a file, but also which apps can edit a specific file type.
I'm having problems...
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It installs to System Preferences....
If you're having issues with file associations, I reccomend installing RCDefaultApp .
Of the type whose association you want to adjust (let's say the file is called " foo.myType ", and you).
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I installed a new version of a software (Toad for SQL Server 4.6 Beta), keeping the old version (4.5 Freeware) too. Now I want to associate .sql files with the new version. I show the path to the new .exe file in the new folder. However, probably because...
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Maybe a daft question but have you tried switching it to some arbitrary application (say, Notepad) and then switching it back to the new one?
you could try changing the extension of the old exe program - such as version45.exe to version45.old
This would... .
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Is there a way to associate a file type (i.e., extension) with a silverlight application that has been installed as an out-of-browser application?
I would like to associate a particular file extension with my app and allow double-clicking on those files...
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It only knows about the file that the....
However that won't be any use unless you can then access the file that was clicked and access its.
It may be possible to cause a double-click of a file to launch the out-of-browser application.
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I inadvertantly got .py files stuck to opening my editor instead of running.
Started by DevelopingChris on
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In such cases, it may be necessary to fix the file association by restoring its registry....
That you want to restore its file type association to revert back to original Windows Vista default extension have been corrupted or broken.
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I know there is a system preferences pane to manually modify the file associations in Mac OS X Leopard. However, I'm curious where does Leopard actually store these information?
UPDATE: as I said, I'm not interested in methods to change them. I want to...
Started by Mehrdad on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
" button to change this file association for allEasy peasy! Its just that it isn't in the most obvious place:
Right click on the file you want to change the association for....
Click the " Change All...
From the drop down box.
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