Extension editor?

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Anybody know of a good extension editor? I'm trying to change some
settings for mpg files and windows media player keeps hijacking them,
its driving me op the wall.
 
P. Burrows said:
Anybody know of a good extension editor? I'm trying to change some
settings for mpg files and windows media player keeps hijacking
them, its driving me op the wall.
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I'm assuming you want to change the default program for opening certain file
types? Simplest way is to right click the file, select "open with", check
the box to "Always use this program..." then browse to the exe you want.
Alternatively (and if you want to add actions) it is easy enough via
Start>Folder Options>File Types.

If the settings don't stick it is because you need to change the options in
the hijacking program.


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PC Magazine WAssociate ( now 'shareware', but shoudl be possible to get
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or PC Magazine Context Edit 1.2 ( same remark as above)
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"Anybody know of a good extension editor? I'm trying to change some
settings for mpg files and windows media player keeps hijacking them,
its driving me op the wall."

My first choice would be WAssociate:
URL. http://www.xs4all.nl/~wstudios/Associate/index.html
DDL. http://www.xs4all.nl/~wstudios/Associate/WAssociate.zip

N.B. Nothing to do with P.C. Magazine as far as I know...

Second choice would be File Assocaition Editor:
URL. http://www.angelfire.com/biz/rhaminisys/fileasoc.html
DDL. http://www.angelfire.com/biz/rhaminisys/binaries/fileasoc.zip

Both are well written, both are freeware, my personal preference is the
former, but YMMV.
 
I'm assuming you want to change the default program for opening certain file
types? Simplest way is to right click the file, select "open with", check
the box to "Always use this program..." then browse to the exe you want.
Alternatively (and if you want to add actions) it is easy enough via
Start>Folder Options>File Types.
Click to expand...

Yes i know. But if that *ACTUALLY WORKED* i would need this. As i wrote,
media player keeps changing the associations back to itself.

If the settings don't stick it is because you need to change the options in
the hijacking program.
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Which i keep doing, and it keeps setting them back as well.
 
Le Tue said:
"Anybody know of a good extension editor? I'm trying to change some
settings for mpg files and windows media player keeps hijacking them,
its driving me op the wall."

My first choice would be WAssociate:
URL. http://www.xs4all.nl/~wstudios/Associate/index.html
DDL. http://www.xs4all.nl/~wstudios/Associate/WAssociate.zip

N.B. Nothing to do with P.C. Magazine as far as I know...

Second choice would be File Assocaition Editor:
URL. http://www.angelfire.com/biz/rhaminisys/fileasoc.html
DDL. http://www.angelfire.com/biz/rhaminisys/binaries/fileasoc.zip

Both are well written, both are freeware, my personal preference is the
former, but YMMV.
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Another only for XP
XpAssociate (262 ko)
http://www.memecode.com/xpassociate.php
http://www.memecode.com/data/XpAssociate.zip
 
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