How to Access Advanced File Types ??

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Synapse Syndrome

I am trying to see if I can add Dreamweaver to IE7's list of editors for
webpages.

I could do this in XP / IE6 using this method:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_18899


But now, File Types is in Control Panel > Default Programs > Set
Associations

and I can't access the the Advanced bit where you could add more right click
options and set default double click behaviour, etc.

Now where has this disappeared to in Vista?

ss.
 
SS--

It hasn't disappeared in Vista.

Try typing the command control folders into either the search box above the
Start button, run box if you like, or make a combo run box and ie address
bar in your task bar to save time by right clicking taskbar>toolbars>address
and then left mouse button down pull at the seam.

Then the View tab options are the same as in XP. On the Folder Options
dialogue box you can set the number of clics to open an item.

To change the program that opens a type of file:

If you double-click a file in Windows and it opens in the wrong software
program, follow these steps to choose the program you would prefer that file
use. You can change this setting for an individual file, or you can tell
Windows to open all files of that same type in the software program you
choose.

Open the folder that contains the file you want to change.

Right-click the file that you want to change, and then, depending on the
type of file, either click Open With or point to Open With and then click
Choose Default Program.

Click the program that you want to use to open this file.

Do one of the following:

If you want all files of that type to open in the same software program,
select the Always use the selected program to open this kind of file check
box, and then click OK.

If you want only that file to open in the software program this one time,
clear the Always use the selected program to open this kind of file check
box, and then click OK.

I don't know if any of these hits for adding dreamweaver will help you, and
you may have been there and done that with this type search. You may want
to hit the Adobe or many Dreamweaver forums that are still around from when
Macromedia had it.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...+to+IE7+list+of+editors+for+web+pages&spell=1

Good luck,

CH
 
Synapse Syndrome said:
Thanks for your reply, but if it hasn't disappeared in Vista, where is it?

It is the dialogue box for setting the different right click options
available to different file types that I am referring to, as shown in the
attached picture.

Do you know how these shell settings can be altered in Vista?
Click to expand...


It looks like this has actually disappeared from Vista after all:
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=726848&SiteID=17


But I have found a suite of programs that replaces the missing functionality
(Method 3):
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article01-500

Shame that the toolpack costs $18. It has a lot of stuff, but only the File
Type Doctor thing look useful to me at this stage.

I've now edited the the required options and now I can open a webpage
directly into Dreamweaver from IE7, like I could do in XP with IE6.

ss.
 
ss,

can you create a new association using Vista native controls, export the
registry keys involved ( HKCU\Software\Classes\.<my extension> ).
Then make a modification using File Type Doctor and re-export the key to
make us understand what is modified ?
 
Simone Chemelli said:
ss,

can you create a new association using Vista native controls, export the
registry keys involved ( HKCU\Software\Classes\.<my extension> ).
Then make a modification using File Type Doctor and re-export the key to
make us understand what is modified ?
Click to expand...


There weren't any file type information in that location, so I tried
HKLM\Software\Classes\. There weren't any of the program path information
in that location, but the file types were there.

I don't know where this information is stored in the registry, but if that
location was found, I can't see why it would be difficult to do it manually.

ss.
 
I would like to be sure of the data are needed in the registry for a
specific file type.
For example you can create an entry that point to
"c:\this_is_a_test_by_ss.exe this_is_a_test_parameter_by_ss" using File Type
Doctor and then make a search in the registry and share the key locations in
the newsgroup...
 
Simone Chemelli said:
I would like to be sure of the data are needed in the registry for a
specific file type.
For example you can create an entry that point to
"c:\this_is_a_test_by_ss.exe this_is_a_test_parameter_by_ss" using File
Type Doctor and then make a search in the registry and share the key
locations in the newsgroup...
Click to expand...


I made a new file type called .TEST with File Type Doctor. I used a basic
template for a image file type, and added an entry to Open with
C:\testapp.exe.

Scanning the registry with RegWorks (which is very nice but seems to crash a
lot in Vista) showed "C:\testapp.exe" to be in four locations. Two of those
locations were related to File Type Doctor itself. The other two were:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\testfile\Shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\testapp.exe\" \"%1\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\testfile\Shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\testapp.exe\" \"%1\""


Notice that the entry was called testfile, instead of .test.

ss.
 
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