file association

A friend of mine is using the default Windows Mail as email client in Windows 8.1. He is also using LibreOffice as word processing application and gets always an error message when he tries to use the "Send As Email" option from within a LibreOffice document. Apparently it is necessary to set...

I recently found many application would not save to correct type. Some software icons would come out to a blank or white block, but those software actually there. For example, realrecorder is running, it would come out a white block on taskbar on bottom. I tried use 'access and program default'...

When I right-click on the file and select Open with..., FileMaker Pro isn't listed as a Recommended Program or Other Program. When I Browse and select FileMaker Pro.exe, nothing happens. The file type doesn't become associated with the program and FMP isn't added as a Recommended or Other...

I usually open my files for Word and Excel from Windows Explorer or by clicking on the file in the Recent Activity screen within the software itself. My Excel files won't open from within Windows Explorer now because I have three links to Microsoft Excel in the Open with dialogue box, one for...

Not sure if this is the right forum, but when attempting to open any downloaded files other than those outside Microsoft Office, I get the message "Class not Registered." I get the same message on all browsers (all updated too). For what it's worth, I just got done uninstalling some programs and...

The thing is, i open java files with Eclipse by default. Today i wanted to take some notes about Java the programming language which include text and code. I used Notepad++, and with it you can save the file as a wide variety of types, among them java file. I chose this, but since they are...

I have several books downloaded from the Gutenberg project. They are .epub files. I tried to open one on my computer and it asked me to open the file using a program. I picked Microsoft Office Word - which didn't work - understandably. Now all the books I have downloaded try to open with...

I want to change the default icon in Windows Explorer for all files with the extension *.dat. How can I do this? Related question: Is it required to have a new icon with a certain size at hand? Assume I have an icon file "newicon.ico" with a dimension 256x256 available and assign this...

When ever I try to open a file, I receive the error I have attached. If I view download, right click the file I am trying to open and open it with reader, than it opens correctly. How can I get the file to open correctly without doing the work around? Link Removed

I did not know where to put this so i put it here. So, Whenever i put a shortcut to open an application ANYWHERE, After about a couple of days it changes its thumbnail/icon to default looking thing. like this, Link Removed Or this on the task bar thingy Link Removed

Hi - I am trying to use the "Open With" option in order to open a photo in Photoshop Elements 11. However, I'm having trouble. Just the program will open but it won't automatically open the photo (I can open photos from within the program by going to File - Open just fine). In a...

There are MANY Threads around the Internet, how to change Icons: Change shortcut icons, change folder icons, change windows icons (for a specific file like jpg). But what I want to change, is a icon of a .exe. Strange, that I can't find anything about that. Everyone is explaining about...

i have jar file ...i mistaken to open with java 7...how to default it & how to open it? Link Removed Link Removed

Hello all: Running Win7 Ultimate 64Bit. I recently installed adobe photoshop cs6. When viewing .jpg files in explorer they are associated with windows photoviewer. If I right click on a .jpg file and go to open with, the CS6 executable does not appear, so I select "choose default program"...

One of the first updates or patches has been released for Windows 8 RTM by Microsoft. The update is available to correct tile logo images of files on the All Apps View. An update is available to correct tile logo images of files on the All Apps View

OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, Service Pack 1, 64 bit Processor: Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5300 @ 2.60GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10 Processor Count: 2 RAM: 6109 Mb Graphics Card: Intel(R) G45/G43 Express Chipset, -1265 Mb Hard Drives: C: Total - 938406 MB, Free -...

Hello, The problem I am having occured after I installed a trial version of Office 365. I found that the file association for xls files was still Libre Office. I went to "Open with>>>Choose default program" and made the mistake of going into the C: drive and selecting an .exe called OSPREARM...

Hi, I have a recent installation of Windows 7 Professional 3 weeks ago. The past 2 days, Word 2007 will not open when i double click a .docx document from Explorer. For a couple of seconds a 'spinning wheel' is displayed...and then nothing. I went to Control Panel, Defaults, and checked the...

I wanted to open an .nfo file in Windows 7 so I did what I did with XP... I right clicked on the file, went to "open with..." expecting to see a whole list of programs so I could pick Wordpad and, guess what... it's not there. Not only is Wordpad not there, but nothing is there. My only option...

I use a "Links Toolbar" on my Win 7 taskbar by the notification tray to access my favorite sites. The toolbar is named "Links". Here is the problem. I changed a theme last night and for some reason when I went to use one of the links what happened was clicking it opened a "Open File Security...