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Winzip windows vista11/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Then I found your sight after many hours of having those exciting witches-in-the-Windows hunts that we’ve all so thrilling experienced in the past. EXE would open BUT to an empty editor and surely therefore without the contents of the MT data file to which I had activated. BAT file which I “browsed” to as permitted. To make the association, I right clicked the file and followed the directions to OPEN WITH the. But I got my work-around change so I proceeded. The changes then appeared.Īs a newbie to Vista and not at all read up on it, I drew the field conclusion that maybe the Vista C:\Program Files folder doesn’t permit changes made to its contents. BAT file out of the C:\Programs Files folder, modified it there and then copied it back. A little strange I thought but surely at the very least I couldn’t expect a change if it didn’t take hold. BAT association file, to account for a different folder name I had given to MT, the changes would not save even though the file closed after editing. I simply copied the MT folder into the C:\Program Files folder. This became the procedure I was to follow in Vista.īeing an old legacy app, there was no standard Windows installation which would include writes to the REGISTRY. BAT file to make the connection between the data file and the MT.EXE when they did not share the same folder. Setting up the association for MT in Win98se wasn’t exactly straightforward. Alone, it’s ten-fold increase in processor clock speed and thirty-fold increase in RAM is that quiet thrill of speed I liken to a commercial jet airliner versus my Acura. The sweet little Dell Inspiron 530 running Windows Vista Home Basic SP1 which I just picked up at the end of 8/2008 is the kind of quantum jump I like to experience. It was only this past January 2008 as my Win98se machine began to show its 10 years of fading further into antiquity, naturalized by MS’s burgeoning OS’s and faster hardware, did I make the switch. It remains and likely will remain a program as essential to my use of the computer for any reason as the microprocessor itself.Īlthough its author, Neil Larson, had kept current with MS evolving OS’s, I had been able, because of MS’s willingness to support legacy programs, to use my MT 3.4. Over the years (21+) and operating systems I have continually and reliably been using MT. My legacy (DOS) 3.4 version of MaxThink (“MT”) (circa 1987): people who haven’t enabled ‘show extensions’ and so don’t know what extension is what can still set the programs they want to use for different filetypes). I suspect they moved it because they’re trying to get people to notice and switch to the new program-centric defaults dialogue (“Set your default programs”) rather than the old extension-centric defaults dialogue (“Associate a file type with a program”, the one you show above), probably on the grounds that it’s much more user-friendly (e.g. You can’t get much more prominent than that! In the right hand column, between ‘Control Panel’ and ‘Help & Support’. I’ve renamed several types of file (including word document) to remove the extension, and every time, the icon changes to a blank page, and double-clicking brings up the dialogue asking what program I want to open it in.Īs for why the dialogue’s in a less prominent place now - well… it isn’t. I have Vista, and it seems to work just the same re extensions as XP did. It, without even a hint or a clue as to where to go instead, seems fairly There’s an argument that this shouldĪlways have been in Control Panel and I actually agree with that. It’s hard to say, though I do frequently fault Microsoft for changing things Once loaded, you can then change which programs open which It’ll take a few seconds to load up as it scans the registry for all the Click on Make aįile type always open in a specific program: On Vista we instead open up Control Panel:įinally we see something that sounds appropriate. Up Windows Explorer, click on Tools, Folder In the past when we’ve needed to view or modify these settings, we’d fire Windows that a “.doc” file should be opened by Microsoft Word. For example after you install Microsoft Office, file associations tell Perhaps, but with nary a clue as to how to find it.įile associations are used to tell Windows what program opens what kind ofįile. The question, of course, is where did it go? To a more logical place But you’re absolutely right theįile association dialog that we’ve come to love and hate that’s been part of ![]()
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