Richard Mitnick

Thanks, your explanation makes perfect sense.

Not being totally bereft of experience and resources, I am in fact running
as defaults what I want, which are Firefox and Winamp. I have played around
with it and have also had RealPlayer and SeaMonkey browser running as
defaults.

I just thought that they should be showing up.

I just installed iTunes, which is not going to last long, and it did install
itself into the Default Programs list, so I see what you are talking about.

"Thomas Olsen [MSFT]" wrote:

> Hi Richard,
>
> Sorry my first effort did not help you solve your problem. Here is some more
> information. It is up to the manufacturers of programs to write them so that
> they'll appear in Default Programs. This is why certain programs, such as
> Firefox, appear while others might not. There is no way for you to add
> individual programs to Default Programs. However, if what you want to
> accomplish is associate certain file types with certain programs, you can do
> that manually:
>
> 1. Click Start.
> 2. Click Default Programs.
> 3. Click Associate a file type or protocol with a program.
> 4. Select a file type from the list, and then click Change program.
> 5. Select the program you want to use.
>
> If the program isn't listed, click the Browse button to find it.
>
> I hope this helps.
>