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Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations

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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.

-- 
John C.

Take back Microsoft from India.

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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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