Vista - Default File Type Associations - Restore

These reg files are from a clean untouched Vista Ultimate though.

Are you running Enterprise or Ultimate?

Sorry for the late reply didn’t notice the second page lol.

That would be perfect I’m running ultimate.

Oh! you mean the ones you posted earlier?

LOL, no problem.

Yeah, the reg files posted earlier were from a clean install.

You might see if clearing the thumbnail cache and rebuilding the icon cache may help since restoring the default registry entries did not seem to.

Tried both of those methods just there and still no joy?
Please say I don’t need to format my machine.lol
I have had more serious problems than this one and have resolved them (nearly lost a few monitors etc in the process but got them sorted. lol)
Appreciate the help Shawn

I'm afraid that I do not know what else to suggest other than a clean reinstall though.

The Reg file should work? Not trying to be insulting! But Are you sure that this is all the entries for jpg remember there are 32 bit & 64 bit registries.

Ok I’ll start from the beginning I’ll try to keep it short & Sweet?
There was a windows update for Word Enterprise (SP2) & couldn’t install it

Only way was to manually uninstall Word Which was removing Registry entries and deleting files (I Was very careful)

Managed to install the new word I got which was the new black one (very sleek)

I’m a graphic illustrator so this means looking for images on the web for ideas
So when I would save an image into a folder with many and it would say this file already exists I would preview the image I had (right click & Preview)

Then the fun began? I got the error “no such interface supported”
The preview worked with IE but not Firefox (my preferred browser)

I ended up just using the Microsoft Image viewer (no great loss)

The default was of course Windows Photo Gallery.

Then I notices that some jpg files showed thumbnails’ but some jpg didn’t.

It defiantly lies with the registry as I remember the file I deleted related to 32 & 64 bit of the registry.

Is it possible to get a registry file that sets ALL vista default everything but still keeping all the programs on my machine because to be honest I really don’t have time to format and start from scratch?

I appreciate the help I’ll just keep finding the time to sort this because I know there is a solution as I have never had to formatI always find a solution.

Can I not restore the registry from the Windows disk?

Could this help me in anyway?
Re: Issue viewing jpg thumbnails on network drive

I also installed Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection

Soulfinger,

Sorry, but you will not be able to repair the registry with just the Vista installation Disk, only through a System Restore, or reg file as manual registry back up instead.

That would only be helpful if you are having problems viewing thumbnails from a network drive.


I'm afraid that I do not know what else to offer, something got deleted in there somewhere. I only see a clean reinstall as an option for now.

Oh! well we tried lol Here comes the fun part of backing everything up to start again.
Do you know of a programe to take an image of installed programms so when Vista is reinstalled i can just start that image just to make things easy and the fact i'm a lazy ba%t*rd lol

cheers for taking the time to help it's appreciated

LOL, I hear you. Usually unless you have a full drive image, which wouldn't work for this, you would need to reinstall the programs since they install all over the drive.

Alrighty Shawn, Just thought I would reply to let you know everything is back to normal (Thankfully)
Just a tip if you’re installing from scratch on a SP2 vista. Allot of drivers can only be installed in safe mode I spent about 2 hours before I went into safe mode and all was good.
Anyway just wanted to thank you again for the help
Take care