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Windows Forum / Windows 95 / January 2004Open With programlist
When I right-click on some file and choose Open With, there is appearing list of programs. How can I remove some unnecessary programs from that list that are no longer on my computer (like IE)? Also when I check the box Always Open With This Program, there is mark " added to the file extension, so I have to modify it from Folder Options. How to avoid that " appearing there? Thanks in advance. Trini. Open With... is either for undefined file types or for more advanced Widows versions, such as ME or XP (beyond the scope of these newsgroups). Decide upon a typical file type and def?ne an appropriate program by the folloging procedure: Next time a "Open With..." happens, be more specific, by clicking on Browse and choosing a more straightforward application with which to always use the file type. If the default choice does not satisfy you or you need an extra application as an alternative, do the following: In a My Computer window or lower in hierarchy, use menu "View/Options/File Types...", look for a type known only by its extension, "XYZ file", click on Edit, in the nezt dialog, click on New, and on a box which appears on top, fill Action with the word Open or something like that, click Browse, navigate My Computer, then C: and Windows, Program Files or wherever that application was installed; finally confirm with OK on every dialog box, so open every window is closed. Thus you have set a "default" Open for those files. > When I right-click on some file and choose Open With, there is appearing > list of programs. How can I remove some unnecessary programs from that [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Trini. >"Trinidad Latvel" <riina999@yahoo.com> wrote in message >> When I right-click on some file and choose Open With, there is appearing >> list of programs. How can I remove some unnecessary programs from that >> list that are no longer on my computer (like IE)? It helps if you understand how that list is populated. File associations have developed as a series of layers as Windows grew from Win3.yuk to 9x and beyond. Originally, there was only one file association, which would "open" the file when the file was launched. The simple "Open With..." as used in Win95xx and Win98xx works in this way, as does Win3.yuk This was later fleshed out a tad, by adding other "canonical" generic actions such as Print. These can be selected from the rt-click context menu in Windows Explorer. Both this, and the next (more significant) change, first appeared in Win95 AFAIK (dunno NT 3.xx) This system was fleshed out further, generalizing it to non-canonical actions that would be listed in the rt-click menu. These could have any name, and you could add as many as you like. Any one of these actions (canonical or not) could be set as the Default action, but here's the rub; some contexts ignore this setting and will use the action called "open" instead. Specifics: - these use the action selected as default: - double-click or Enter in Windows Explorer - these will use the action called "open": - use of file name from command line - use of Start command - launching files from File Manager - launching files by DDE? - populating the traditional "open with" list So the list of apps you see offered by the traditional Open With are those that featues as "open" action command lines for some "file type" or other. That's why you can't edit this list; it's built up "on the fly" from a side-effect of other settings you may not want to break. >> Also when I check the box Always Open With This Program, there is mark " >> added to the file extension, so I have to modify it from Folder Options. >> How to avoid that " appearing there? That's a good Q; no PC I've seen does that, so it seems as if there's an extraneous " somewhere in your PC's registry or something :-( >--------------- ----- ---- --- -- - - - Error Messages Are Your Friends >--------------- ----- ---- --- -- - - - >> "Trinidad Latvel" <riina999@yahoo.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > or other. That's why you can't edit this list; it's built up "on the > fly" from a side-effect of other settings you may not want to break. Thank you for explanations, I did remove all file-types associated with IE, as I did remove IE with IEradicator and don't need those file-types there anymore. >>> Also when I check the box Always Open With This Program, there is mark >>> " [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > That's a good Q; no PC I've seen does that, so it seems as if there's > an extraneous " somewhere in your PC's registry or something :-( >>>> Also when I check the box Always Open With This Program, there is >>>> mark " [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >> That's a good Q; no PC I've seen does that, so it seems as if there's >> an extraneous " somewhere in your PC's registry or something :-( Did fix it! It was in -HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT -* -shell -openas |command (Default)OpenAs_RunDLL "%1"" On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 19:08:58 +0200, Trinidad Latvel >On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 10:02:18 +0200, Trinidad Latvel <riina999@yahoo.com> >>>>> Also when I check the box Always Open With This Program, there is >>>>> mark " added to the file extension >>> That's a good Q; no PC I've seen does that, so it seems as if there's >>> an extraneous " somewhere in your PC's registry or something :-( >Did fix it! It was in >-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT > -* > -shell > -openas > |command (Default)OpenAs_RunDLL "%1"" Well done! Now why didn't I think of that? <headslap> >--------------- ----- ---- --- -- - - - Error Messages Are Your Friends >--------------- ----- ---- --- -- - - - OK, but how can I remove from that list programs that are no longer on my computer? There are 5 programs that I once had and did remove, but they still on that list. Trini. > Open With... is either for undefined file types or for more advanced > Widows [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] >> >> Trini. OK, but how can I remove from that list programs that are no longer on my computer? There are 5 programs that I once had and did remove, but they still on that list. Trini. > Open With... is either for undefined file types or for more advanced > Widows [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] >> >> Trini. you can download tweakui and remove them manually > OK, but how can I remove from that list programs that are no longer on my > computer? There are 5 programs that I once had and did remove, but they [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > >> > >> Trini. |
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