"Ray" <vortren-newsx@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In Win 2000, you could specify different programs for the open, edit,
> and print functions (and others as well, I think). An example of the
> same idea in Vista is a .bat file, which opens with the command
> processor, but uses Notepad for editing. That's what I'd like to do
> for picture files -- two different programs to open and edit.
> PaintShop takes too long to start up for casual viewing, so I want to
> use Photo Gallery to open files, but PaintShop to edit them.
>
> I'd also like to change the default editor for .bat files to something
> else. But from what I've found via Google, the only way to do that in
> Vista is by editing the registry.
I like to edit the context menu to do certain things too, like to Edit HTML
files with Dreamweaver, instead of stupid Word, for instance.
Without the Advnaced File Types tab in Vista, the best replacement I have
found is not free, and it comes with some useless stuff as well, but the
File Type Doctor component is a very good replacement for the lost tab.
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article02-500
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