file association

[Lloyd Dupont]

how to know, given a file, which application would open it ?

 

[Shaun Wilde]

that is in the registry

look under HKCR - HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

and follow an extension

eg .htm points to htmlfile

and htmlfile has the IE app under shell/open/command

 

[Lloyd Dupont]

thanks !!

that is in the registry

look under HKCR - HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

and follow an extension

eg .htm points to htmlfile

and htmlfile has the IE app under shell/open/command