Vista - Nero 9 wmv/mpg file associations.

Basically nero takes over these file types and leaves you no way of restoring them to your favourite player. This only occurs when trying to launch said file types from IE7, not from your HDD. As a result IE7 will take you to a 'page cannot be displayed' page if you click on a wmv or mpg link rather than launching the video in wmp 11.

Nero Show Time is the culprit but there is no entry in 'Default Programs' for it.

The registry entry for wmv: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.wmv shows (Default).......NeroShowTime.Files9.wmv.

Uninstalling Nero, (which takes ages, as does installing) doesn't restore WMP11's file associations.

I had to do it manually.

In regedit go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.wmv and change "NeroShowTime.Files9.wmv" to "WMP11.AssocFile.WMV"

Do the same for AVI and MPG, except for AVI change the registry entry to "WMP11.AssocFile.AVI" and MPG to "WMP11.AssocFile.MPEG"

Im supprised no one replied to this, anyway that's how I got it working again.

It would would be good if the Vista default programs list enabled you to over ride the current settings like you could do via the the WMP11 More options> file types list in Xp. This way someone with little to no knowledge of the windows registry wouldn't have to go in and edit it, i.e. me.

It would also be better if Nero 9 didn't take over all the media file type associations! Or at least gave you an option not to, or change it back.

Myself, i dont like nero.
Have you tried startmenu>Default programs?