Vista - Adding Program to list of Selected programs

I am a website designer and this is my first post and frankly I am getting very close to throwing in the towel and Vista with it and returning to XP. (I notice today via Zednet that MS has announced a further extension to XP support and is accelerating its Windows 7 OS.)

However before abandoning Vista as I have so much time already invested in this so called "upgrade" I found this forum and thought well why not give them a go at trying to solve my problem(s).

Vista frustrates me because it tries to rule my computing experience and removes from me much of my control.

In this case I use older programs such as Paint Shop Pro 7 (much easier to use than Paint Shop X but I can not find away of making the file formats I need (.jpg and .gif) associate with this program try as I may Vista stubbornly insists the files shoud be opened by ADobe Fireworks which I use infrequently.

I have looked at trying to use the add default programs to form the file format associations but Vista only favours a number of programs in its list of programs to choose from so does anyone know how to add to this rather rare list.

I look forward to your replies and thanks in advance.

Hello Chiphh,

You can use Default Programs to set the individual file extension types to Open With the Paint Shop Pro 7 .exe file as the current default program instead. This tutorial will help show you how to.

Default Programs

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thank you Brink that did the trick. I will look at all the tutorials before posting queries that have been answered in them.

Cheers

Your welcome Chiphh. No problem. Feel free to ask any question you have in one of the forums.

Shawn