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Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations

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"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.

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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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