file association

I need to set Wing 101 as the default program for .py files. I use the traditional method where one goes to right click on the file>open with>choose default program>browse. After locating it in the Program Files, I select the application, but my selection does not save when the directory closes...

Somebody please help me I am at my wits end trying to find a solution to this. some programs for example skype, that take info from the web to be placed into the application like skype home are opening (or trying to open) these files in chrome. I realise many of these files are temp files which...

So, one day, I was fiddling with my computer, and I pressed 'Open With' on A torrent application called Bitlord. Then I stupidly pressed open with Google Chrome as it's default way to open. But that didn't effect Bitlord only. It affected all programs such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Paint...

when I open a .exe in windows 8.1, it says 'how do you want to open this file' and im not sure what I open the .exe with??!! if anyone could help that would be appreciated :)

Hi all: I have the strangest problem. If I double click a .txt file, it opens a Command Prompt window rather than the .txt file! If I use right click, open with, choose default program, the check box for "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" is grayed out. If I select...

Please someone help me how to fix my problem about the file target of all my programs. The operating system of my PC is Windows XP 2002. Last night, I opened the folder options then i forgot what i did (sorry). suddenly, all the programs including microsoft,mozilla firefox,google crome, even...

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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...

Ok there are many guides on how to assign ONE certain extension (e.g. .aaa) to one program myprog.exe so that a double click on a file myfile.aaa will automatically start the program and load the file. But what I need is a similar but different way of assignment. I want completely replace...

I use WinRar. In Options > Settings > Integration > User defined archive extensions, I've associated XPI and JA files with the program. I would like to add the following entries to Windows Explorer's context menu: 1) Add to archive "FileName.xpi" 2) Add to archive "FileName.ja" I'd like...

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...

Hi, The images on my shortcuts are not displayed by taking the entire surface of my icon, while the image. ICO associated is big enough! Link Removed The display in Windows Explorer is set to "Large Icons". Why ?

Strange behavior from windows here. Normally opening an mp3 file would simply open Winamp, but now it opens another program, Switch Sound Converter. So I go into Winamp and see that all the audio types are associated with Winamp already... but I'll re-set them to just be sure. So now in Windows...

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...

What I am wanting to do is when I right click on a file have an option to run a command. for example: -filebot -rename "filename" This command would execute if I clicked on the option in the right click menu