Associate a file type or protocol with a program

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Hello,

I have been looking for some time in Vista, on how to associate multiple
programs to one file type. For example: with JPEG images (Extension .jpg) in
XP you could edit the .jpg extension and add different options when you right
click, say Edit, Open, Preview, Print, etc. Also you could set one of these
as the Default when you double click the file. In XP you could go the one
step further and use different programs for each of those options. For
example, if you clicked open, you could have that set to MS Paint, if you
click Preview, it would open Windows Picture Viewer, Edit would open
Photoshop etc.

It seems in Vista when you go to .jpg in "Associate a file type or protocol
with a program" listed under "Default Programs" in the Start menu, its been
simplified to just allowing one single program to be chosen as the default.
My question is "Does the ability that XP had still exist in Vista," maybe as
advanced options?

Thanks.
 
David said:
Hello,

I have been looking for some time in Vista, on how to associate multiple
programs to one file type. For example: with JPEG images (Extension .jpg)
in
XP you could edit the .jpg extension and add different options when you
right
click, say Edit, Open, Preview, Print, etc. Also you could set one of
these
as the Default when you double click the file. In XP you could go the one
step further and use different programs for each of those options. For
example, if you clicked open, you could have that set to MS Paint, if you
click Preview, it would open Windows Picture Viewer, Edit would open
Photoshop etc.

It seems in Vista when you go to .jpg in "Associate a file type or
protocol
with a program" listed under "Default Programs" in the Start menu, its
been
simplified to just allowing one single program to be chosen as the
default.
My question is "Does the ability that XP had still exist in Vista," maybe
as
advanced options?
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