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Old 04-15-2008   #5 (permalink)
Jon


 
 

Re: Weird behavior of ShellExecute on Vista

Right-click on

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.avi

choose export and paste the exported .reg file in here.


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Jon


"Mihai Ciumeică" <cmihai@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:

> There's no mention of VLC in there. Where does the system look next, if it
> finds LegacyDisable in the first location?
> And here are the contents of the registry branch, edited for brevity:
>
> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AVIFile\shell]
> @="Play"
>
> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AVIFile\shell\open]
> "LegacyDisable"=""
> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AVIFile\shell\open\command]
> @="%ProgramFiles%\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" /prefetch:8 /Open
> "%L"
> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AVIFile\shell\open\DropTarget]
> "CLSID"="{CE3FB1D1-02AE-4a5f-A6E9-D9F1B4073E6C}"
>
> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AVIFile\shell\play]
> @="&Play"
> "MUIVerb"=@%SystemRoot%\system32\unregmp2.exe,-9991
> "LegacyDisable"=""
> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AVIFile\shell\play\command]
> @="%ProgramFiles%\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" /prefetch:8 /Play
> "%L"
> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AVIFile\shell\play\DropTarget]
> "CLSID"="{CE3FB1D1-02AE-4a5f-A6E9-D9F1B4073E6C}"
>
> I might resort to just searching the registry for all mentions of .avi,
> avifile and VLC, but, if nothing else, I'd like to help the next person
> looking for the solution to this. :-)
>
>
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