Changing File Associations via the Registry

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mikeo

I'm trying to figure out a way to change file associations in the
win2k registry. I'm trying to change the file associations for
scripting file types. Ie. .vbs, .vbe, .wsf, etc. I would like to do
this via the registry, because I have a tool which will allow me to
make changes to a group of servers at once, and we have a lot of
servers here. When I search for file associations in the registry,
the file is associated with a class identifier. I would like to
associate these file types with notepad.exe.
Any insight will be greatly appreciated.
thanks
mikeo
 
Hi,
usually what I do when I dont know what's going on, is
export the registry to a file, then make the changes
trought windows system, in your case in the >Folder Option
file types, make the changes , then export again the
Click to expand...
registry and use the utility called "FC.EXE" to make a
file compare, located in the windows\command. you'll get
the diffrence between the 2 registry files.
c:\windows\command\fc path\reg1 path\reg2 > results.txt

*try not do too many stuff between the fist export and the
second , so that way the registry diffrence won't include
too many results.

the other way is to use some utilities that tells you what
chages has been done to the registry, but that another
story, use msn or yahoo to search.

ano
 
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