jacourPremium
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| [XPPro] Help with resetting file associations I still use MS Photo Editor for a lot of jobs so I had it set as my default image manager for JPG, GIF and PNG. For some reason it got switched to Windows Picture and FAX Viewer. Usually you can just go into the File Associations dialog under Explorer and reset the application, but that would not work for me like it usually does.
So.... I had to do it manually but I think I screwed up something. Right now I have it with the following:
Action: &Edit (set as default action, also tried &Open)
Application used: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Photo Editor\PHOTOED.EXE" %1
Use DDE: Checked
DDE Message: blank (also tried [REM _DDE_Direct][FileOpen("%1")])
Application: PHOTOED
Topic: System
When I click on a JPG it open Photo Editor but instead of loading the file I clicked, it pops a dialog box that says:
"Photo Editor cannot find or open" followed by a bunch of non-printable characters.
I just want it to open for edit whatever file I clicked. What is the correct syntax to use? |
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 JBpX
join:2009-05-14 | Did you try to simply right click on the file and do the open with, hit browse and locate the program and hit always use this file for this extension type?
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jacourPremium
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| reply to jacour
Yes, the problem is not that Windows can't find the right application (I have that fixed). The problem is that PhotoEd does not open the file properly, right click or no right click. PhotoEd opens just fine, but there is no image there or else there is an error message (depending on the syntax I have tried). |
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OZOPremium
join:2003-01-17
kudos:2 | reply to jacour
Try to put " around %1:
Application used: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Photo Editor\PHOTOED.EXE" "%1"
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jacourPremium
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| reply to jacour
Yes, I tried it with %1 and "%1" to no avail.
I finally got it sorted by removing most references in the registry (thanks RegScanner!) to both PHOTOED and JPG, JPEG, and JPE. Then I rebooted, reinstalled Photo Editor, and tweaked the associations from the Explorer menus. I suppose I will never know what the root cause of the problem was, but at this point it goes into the category of "if it ain't broken, then don't fix it". Definitely something was messed up in Windows or the registry to cause this. |
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