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Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations

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On 25/03/02 12:50 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
> "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 25/02/06 07:12 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
>>> "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 25/02/06 06:46 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.
>>>> To all of you who have replied, thanks very much for doing so.
>>>>
>>>> So at this point, ...every ...single ...program ...reinstall so far has
>>>> been way too problematic.
>>>>
>>>> I am now giving serious consideration to simply wiping the drive, and
>>>> then installing Windows 7 on it. Then I will install all my drivers and
>>>> programs, do all the tweaking and adjusting and I will know that it will
>>>> all work.
>>>>
>>>> Then I will downgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10.
>>>
>>> You sure you wouldn't be happier just sticking with the fresh Windows 7
>>> install, and forget Windows 10 altogether, for now.
>>
>> It's a done deal. I'm using W10 at this point. What led to my
>> reinstalling W10 from scratch (at least as much as I was able to do,
>> since my system is so old that it can't boot from a thumb drive) was
>> that I was unable to save changes to my documents without doing a
>> workaround. It might have been that the problem was due to CFA being
>> activated when I did the first reinstall. I don't know. CFA works, I'm
>> sure, as a method of blocking ransomware, but perhaps there might be a
>> better solution which doesn't confuse the average end user of the OS so
>> much. CFA is a lot of work to set up (like one of the old firewalls) and
>> like you mentioned in another post, there's no way that MS can create or
>> maintain a list of all the software which would be safe to use.
> 
> Or possibly your Windows account under which you were logged in did not
> have write permissions in the folder containing the file you could read.
> As I recall, when you attempt to save, but you don't have write
> permission, you are offered to save the modified file to elsewhere, like
> to the desktop.

That was the weird thing about it. I did have write permission, because
my account then (as now) was an administrator one. And that it was only
specific folders (like Documents and Pictures) where I was blocked from
altering files, that kind of points towards CFA.

-- 
John C.

Take back Microsoft from India.

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  Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-02-06 12:00 -0500
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  Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-02-06 17:26 -0800
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      Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-02-06 21:11 -0600
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      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
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        Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-02-07 08:18 -0600
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                Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-04 11:53 -0600
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