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OT: File Associations & Descriptions

Any nice way (other than the registry) to edit the file associations AND descriptions as they appear in Windows Explorer? ...Jim Thompson

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Jim Thompson
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Also the icons? ...Jim Thompson

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Jim Thompson

We just touched on that in the other thread, give a closer look.

Tim

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Tim Williams

I missed it, Tim. Have a message-ID so I can retrieve? ...Jim Thompson

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Jim Thompson

I think this is the thread... news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com.

Cheers

Reply to
Martin Riddle

On Mon, 07 Sep 2015 11:10:19 -0700, Jim Thompson Gave us:

Look through the thread you asked about icons in, simpleton.

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DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno

Aha! Now I remember, it contained a 4-letter word, "regedit" >:-}

I ran across a program called "FileTypesMan" ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson                                 |    mens     | 
| Analog Innovations                               |     et      | 
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    | 
| San Tan Valley, AZ 85142     Skype: skypeanalog  |             | 
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  | 
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com |    1962     | 
              
I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.
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Jim Thompson

"FileTyesMan" works great!

Now I'm going to try "BeCyIconGrabber" to change icons (Cadence has a habit of installing the most atrocious icons, and goes out of the way to purge all reference to MicroSim :-( ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson                                 |    mens     | 
| Analog Innovations                               |     et      | 
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    | 
| San Tan Valley, AZ 85142     Skype: skypeanalog  |             | 
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  | 
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com |    1962     | 
              
I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.
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Jim Thompson

Also works great! ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson                                 |    mens     | 
| Analog Innovations                               |     et      | 
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    | 
| San Tan Valley, AZ 85142     Skype: skypeanalog  |             | 
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  | 
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com |    1962     | 
              
I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.
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Jim Thompson

Control Panel / File options / File Types

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Robert Baer

On Mon, 07 Sep 2015 14:08:17 -0700, Jim Thompson Gave us:

You want a proper computing environment upgrade...

try one or two of these...

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You can thank me later... and anyone else with brains enough to make their computing experience an order of magnitude more comfortable and awesome.

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DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno

Turns out a program called "Types" works better, and is simpler to use as well.

"FileTypesMan" changes the icon in Windows Explorer but in any program where you select Open, the old ugly Crapture icon is there. "Types" fixes that. ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson                                 |    mens     | 
| Analog Innovations                               |     et      | 
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    | 
| San Tan Valley, AZ 85142     Skype: skypeanalog  |             | 
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  | 
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com |    1962     | 
              
I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.
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Jim Thompson

Hi Jim, got a link? That is rather hard to find by a web search.

Thanks

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John Devereux
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John Devereux

I spite of the article, both programs are _installed_, not "portable". ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson                                 |    mens     | 
| Analog Innovations                               |     et      | 
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    | 
| San Tan Valley, AZ 85142     Skype: skypeanalog  |             | 
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  | 
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com |    1962     | 
              
I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Reply to
Jim Thompson

Thanks! :)

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John Devereux
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John Devereux

I used to use a program to remember my icon position on the screen under Vista. There was plenty of stuff that would mess it up, especially when changing screen resolution.

I would like a save/restore feature for icons associations for situations like you seem to be having where updates or installations muck things up. Does this tool have that? Otherwise, why not just change then in Explorer? What am I missing? Can't you right click any icon and change the association?

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Rick
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rickman

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