From: "Rich" 

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   For users, no.  You can use the command line commands ASSOC and FTYPE =
but I would not recommend it over the GUI.

   For ISVs there is plenty of documentation.  What you do depends on =
the type of app.  Apps like web browsers and email clients that want to =
become the default have to do additional registration to have themselves =
offered as options.  Firefox did enough to get itself listed as an = option
but not enough for selecting that option to work correctly.  = Firefox also
didn't correctly register itself as owning the HTTP = protocol and you use
the UI within firefox to select it as the default.  = This is in fact the
only registration entry I checked.  It could have = gotten much more wrong
too.

Rich

  "Frank Haber"  wrote in message =
news:41274c4e{at}w3.nls.net...
  Rich, are there any any better tools than WinExplorer's file =
properties panes
  for simple registration (for execute, open, etc.)?

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users, no.  You =
can use the=20
command line commands ASSOC and FTYPE but I would not recommend it over = the=20
GUI.
 
   For ISVs
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documentation.  What you do depends on the type of app. 
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browsers and email clients that want to become the default have to do = additional=20
registration to have themselves offered as options.  Firefox did =
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get itself listed as an option but not enough for selecting that option = to work=20
correctly.  Firefox also didn't correctly register itself as owning = the=20
HTTP protocol and you use the UI within firefox to select it as the=20
default.  This is in fact the only registration entry I =
checked.  It=20
could have gotten much more wrong too.
 
Rich
 

  "Frank Haber" <frhaber{at}N0SPMrcn.com>">mailto:frhaber{at}N0SPMrcn.com">frhaber{at}N0SPMrcn.com>
=
wrote in=20
  message news:41274c4e{at}w3.nls.net...Ri=
ch, are=20
  there any any better tools than WinExplorer's file properties =
panesfor=20
  simple registration (for execute, open, =
etc.)?

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