Tag Archives: File Association

Free Viewer: Open & Work On 100+ Document, Image And Archive Formats

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In versatile environments, you may feel the heat against the tide of file formats ranging from documents to images, media to archives each requiring a unique application to open and process information. Finding the right version of the appropriate software, buying, maintaining and updating them to attain full benefit costs you both time and money. Don’t worry, Free Viewer is here to help. It supports over 100 file formats coupled with document editing capabilities (supporting Microsoft Office, WordPerfect and Open Office formats), image viewer and editor (supporting RAW, PSD and other image formats), media player (Video, Audio and Flash file support), and a powerful file archiving tool (supporting Compressed and XPI files) . Forget everything else, all you need is to open the required file and modify it according to your requirements. Read More

File Type Manager: Add Or Edit Default File Type Actions & Remove Property Sheet Entries

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A while back, we covered an an extremely useful application called ContextEdit that lets you edit right-click context menu of any selected file type. The application has the ability to read all registered file extensions from Windows registry to let you easily modify default actions, such as open, open with, print etc. Today, we came across another similar Windows utility called File Type Manager, which allows you to not only modify the default context menu entries of the selected file type, but also to register new file actions as well as edit default/existing actions. Using the application, you can, for instance, associate text files including .txt, .log, .csv etc., with MS Word or other text processing applications. It even lets you remove unnecessary property sheet entries of all file types. For example, if you want to disintegrate a third-party application's tab/options from file's property sheet, just select All Files from the list, expand Shell Extensions >PropertySheetHandlers, and delete the superfluous entries. Read past the jump for more details regarding the usage and a few screenshots. Read More

OpenWith Enhanced Adds More Features To Windows 7 ‘Open With’ Dialog Box

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The Open With dialog in Windows right-click context menu instantly opens a file in a selected program and sets default program association. This ensures that the selected file automatically opens with the pre-defined application. For example, if you were to associate all Mp4 files with VLC Player, then the next time you open a video in Mp4 format, it will automatically open with VLC. Despite being an essential part of the Windows operating system, the Open With feature still lacks many enhancements which can make it more useful. For example, it would be nice to be able to get suggestions for known and unknown file types within the Open With dialog and to disable file associations temporarily rather than completely binding them with another application. Read More

Create New Windows Extensions And Change File Associations With ExtMan

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Earlier, I’ve covered two file association and extension managers for Windows, namely, FileTypesMan and Gunner File Type Editor (GFTE), the latter has slew of options to handle the extensions and to change default application file associations. However, FileTypesMan from famous Nirsoft, lists down both associated and non-associated extensions. ExtMan is somewhat close to GFTE in terms of creating and changing new extensions and file associations respectively. One thing which gets it over the line is its minimalistic interface flaunting with all essential options. Read More

Gunner File Type Editor: Manage Extensions And Customize File Associations

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Gunner File Type Editor (GFTE) is a small yet powerful portable application which is built to easily change file associations. As associating different program extensions with desired application  in Windows Vista and Windows 7 is not that easy and bit tedious for an average user. It provides an seamless way to change not only extensions of every single program installed on system but also supports changing system file associations like; DLLs, INIs,  REGs, etc. Read More

Fix Windows 7 File Association

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It happens that when a bad software corrupts the registry some of your files will stop opening. As a software tester who comes across such bad software on a daily basis, I can testify that this is one big annoyance that faces me daily. Once your registry becomes corrupt, it becomes difficult to associate a file with a program.

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