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How can I force file association update without admin rights on win7?
On windows 7 I previously used Foo\notepad++.exe to open .txt files, now that has been deleted and I want to use Bar\notepad++.exe. When I use the Windows OpenWith menu option on a .txt file and ...
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How Can You Open a Folder with an application in Ubuntu 13.04
How Can You Open a Folder with an application from Nautilus in Ubuntu 13.04?
See this bug. Is there some type of plugin I can use to get around this?
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“Open with” launched instead of “paste” when dropping a file into directory [closed]
The Windows Explorer shows a list of files in the current dir. I want to drop one file more. Yet, all my files are executable and launched with dropped file as argument instead of move/copy/shortcut ...
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Add Windows Live Photo Gallery's “Edit tab” to the context menu of photos in Explorer
I quite like Windows Live Photo Gallery for managing and also for touching up photos (straighten, contrast, etc).
Oddly, even though it is standard on Windows 7, it doesn't seem to be well integrated ...
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Make files open with a certain app on Windows client machines
At work I am running Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit and all the clients are Windows 7 32-bit.
I would like all ISO files to open automatically with VLC player when double clicked. At the moment if I ...
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Shortcuts are not working in Windows 7 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to reset shortcuts (.lnk file) in Windows 7?
Somehow, shortcuts are not working on the PC. When I open any shortcut in Windows, it opens VLC Media Player. I can ...
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Can I use a custom command in OS X's “Open With”?
I'd like to be able on OS X (Mountain Lion) to automatically open a file with a custom command. In particular, if I double-click on file xxx.vcb, I'd like it to open with:
python wp.py xxx.vcb
in a ...
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The program I select through “Open with” > “Browse” does not launch [duplicate]
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“Open With” dialog ignores my selection
I am using Windows 7. I am using Processing 2.06a and want to start .PDE files with the processing.exe file.
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Windows 7: How to modify what program opens a batch file?
I remember in Windows XP where you could edit file associations to not only change what program would open certain files, but edit individual items in a file's right-click context menu. You could ...
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“Open file with” dialog upon startup?
Every time I login to my PC, I receive this message:
Now, it's not that big of a deal, and Windows 7 works just fine. What's odd is that it's supposedly just a generic 'Program' that 7 is trying to ...
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Remove or identify Photoshop on Open With List
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When using Windows Explorer's Open With... context menu, many image types show two Photoshop CS5 entries. One is the 32-bit version, the other is the 64-bit version. However, they both use ...
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Pass command line arguments to Windows “Open With”
I have a program that opens with a specific shortcut, but the shortcut seems to send parameters to the application. If I go directly to the target directory and double-click, it does not work. ...
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How do I create a default association for files with an unknown extension in Windows 7?
It used to be possible to set HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Unknown\Shell\Open\Command and then any unknown files would open with the specified program instead of seeing that “Open With...” dialog box.
This ...
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How to set a fallback program for the default one associated with given extension in Windows?
When there's a problem with opening some file with the default program associated with its type (when clicking a file or typing filename and pressing ENTER at the command line) I'd like Windows to try ...
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How to add program to every single file's “open with…” list?
How do I go about adding a program to every files right click "open with..." list in Windows 7?
For example; I like to regularly view files in HxD hexeditor; there are various types of files I do ...
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How to change a file's “open with” setting to another instance of the program with the same name?
I have 8 versions of a particular piece of software installed (versions 5.1.0 through 5.1.7). I need all versions installed so I can occasionally test using the older versions. They're all in ...
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How to assign more then one open action to one file system
All operating system I use apart form Windows have a “Open with…” options for there Explorer, Finder, whatever. This is very useful as often more then one program can handle a given file extension.
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Mac: Change Default Text Editor [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Default editor for files without file name extension in Mac OS X
The default is currently TextEdit. I want to change it to be MacVim.
I know how to set files that end ...
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Snow Leopard - Open With - edit recommended applications
I thought one of the new features of snow leopard was supposed to be the ability to clean up contextual menus. I know it does with the services. But I thought you would be able to edit the "Open ...
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Accidentally associated .EXE with Virtual PC
I was trying to open a Virtual PC file that was in .exe format, so I went and pressed Open With, and selected Virtual PC. I pressed ok and then tried to open it, but it didnt work. Unfortunately, I ...
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make quantaplus a default editor for php files in ubuntu
In Ubuntu, how can I make Quanta Plus the default editor for PHP files?
In Windows we just use the open with context menu the first time for any new types of files and check use this application for ...
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Ubuntu's gui “Open With” command is not memorizing the application
In Ubuntu, when we right-click a icon and use "open with", there is an option to remember that application for that file's type.
For some reason, my system is no more memorizing the application (I ...
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Can't run certain .exe's - “Open With” dialog box keeps popping up instead of launching the app
Win XP Home fresh install. Two profiles, one administrator, one limited.
On the limited account only, the "Open With" dialog box pops up on certain .exe's I attempt to run - particularly Firefox and ...
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Setting default program for a type does not work as expected
I am trying to open a text document with SciTE on Windows. I select Open With -> Choose Program. I then select Browse and navigate to the Program Files/Scintilla Text Editor/SciTE.exe, but the SciTE ...
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How do I determine the path to Applications within “Open with” context menu on OS X?
I've got several versions of the Flash Player listed in my "Open with" context menu. I'd like to determine the path to those applications. I'd also like greater control over those items in the list. ...
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How to change FileZilla so that View/Edit opens .html in Notepad++, not Firefox
Currently Firefox is set by Windows to open .html files. I'm hoping I can sort of override this in FileZilla so I can do quick edits and then upload them to the server.
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Creating an “Open with …” shortcut to Notepad++ but the shellex is not working [closed]
I want to create a keyboard short-cut that will open a file I am on with Notepad++.
How can I do that?
It seems the installer isn't creating the shellex for me. It actually was there and I installed ...
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Missing Open-With when shift-right-clicking a file in Windows 7
Shift-right-clicking a file should bring up 'Open With' as one of the options in the context menu. In Windows 7, specifically on ".war" files, it doesn't. Any idea why?
