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Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations

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On 2025-02-06 17:00, Newyana2 wrote:
> On 2/6/2025 9:46 AM, John C. wrote:
>> Well, I did it. I reinstalled Windows 10 Pro. And although I told the
>> setup not to save my files and settings, it wound up saving a lot of my
>> files which weren't in the documents or pictures folders.
>>
>> Now I'm trying to reinstall the applications that I had before. This
>> works pretty well except for one HUGE problem. Whenever a program
>> attempts to set up file associations, it's prevented from doing so by
>> Windows. Instead, I have to tediously go into Settings/Apps/Default
>> apps/Choose default apps by file types and tediously find the extension
>> in that massive list so that I can change the file association for it,
>> ...one ...file ...type ...at ...a ...time.
>>
>> Alternatively, I can wait until I need to open a particular file type
>> (let's use either a .zip or an .mp3 as an example), right click on the
>> file, select "Open with>" and set the default application from there.
>>
>> Does anybody know of a way make Windows allow programs to set file
>> associations like in Windows 7?
>>
>> Also, why in the world would Microsoft make it so difficult to do like 
>> this?
>>
>> TIA.
>>
>     I don't think there's any easier option. MS have taken to
> blocking any software but their own from hijacking file
> associations.
> 
>    On the bright side, you can still set up Open With X
> under HKCR\*. I have about 6 of those menu items, so
> that I can bypass. For example, IrfanView is my default
> for viewing iamges, but if I want to edit an image I
> use right-click -> Open with Paint Shop Pro.

Yes, I had similar problems when creating my Win 7 build, in that by 
default any such associations are created for an individual user, in 
other words in their registry hive, not that for the machine as a whole. 
  This means that any new users, including yourself if your profile gets 
corrupted, will have to go through the whole tedium all over again.  I 
made all the associations as a user, then exported all the various 
sections of HKCU\Software\Classes, combined them into one, changed HKCU 
to HKLM and then reimported them.  Then I made a copy of the registry 
file and edited it to delete the keys from HKCU.

As you say, it's a right royal PITA, but at least these associations 
seem to survive the various upgrades, so far at least, unlike the 
windows sizes, default choice of Details view in Explorer, etc, etc, 
losing which are the bane of every so-called 'upgrade' of Windows.

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Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-02-06 06:46 -0800
  Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-02-06 09:26 -0600
  Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-02-06 12:00 -0500
    Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-02-06 17:59 +0000
  Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-02-06 13:47 -0500
  Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-02-06 14:16 -0700
  Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-02-06 17:26 -0800
    Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-02-06 17:40 -0800
      Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-02-06 21:11 -0600
        Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-02-07 12:59 +0000
      Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "Allan Higdon" <allanh@vivaldi.net> - 2025-02-07 07:24 -0600
      Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-02-07 10:57 -0500
      Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-07 16:40 +0000
      Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-02-07 15:24 -0800
    Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-02-06 21:12 -0600
      Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-02-07 04:17 -0800
        Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-02-07 08:18 -0600
          Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-02-07 15:31 -0800
            Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-02-07 19:10 -0600
        Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-02-07 09:37 -0700
      Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-03-02 05:42 -0800
        Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-02 14:50 -0600
          Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-03-03 06:19 -0800
            Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-03 14:26 -0600
              Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-03-04 04:04 -0800
                Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-04 11:53 -0600
    Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-02-07 16:48 +0000
  Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations Mr Xi Ji Ping <ping@china.cn> - 2025-02-07 03:00 +0000
    Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-02-07 04:19 -0800

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