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More info?)
You may try to test this on your pc and it should be the same as it was on
mine.
If you try to open a JPG file by doing these steps: 1. Select file: Right
Click>Open With>Choose Program: Click on Browse, and find Notepad.exe. Now
Notepad.exe, if it wasn't listed in the OPEN WITH screen when you clicked on
Choose Program, should be listed in the Other Programs section. Even though
Notepad would not open JPG file, it would just show garbage, it would still
attempt to open it. My issue is that I am unable to select any kind of
program, besides BSPlayer to appear in the OPEN WITH screen even after I
browse for it.
Here is another example.
I have installed GSPOT which shows the information of video files.
It is not listed in Open With, so I click on Choose Program. A screen pops
up(OPEN WITH) and shows available programs. GSPOT isn't listed there, so I
click on Browse and search for the executable file. I click on and choose
OPEN. Now in the past, when I chose OPEN, GSPOT would be listed in the Other
Programs section together with all my installed programs. It doesn't get
listed in there anymore. Thus I am unable to choose this particular program.
I have been thinking that maybe there are specific number of programs that
can be listed in the OPEN WITH screen(Not in the right click menu, but when
the OPEN WITH screen pops up.) And when I reach that number, no other
programs would show up on the OPEN WITH screen. If this is the case, how can
I eliminate some programs that are listed in the OPEN WITH screen so I can
have the ones that I want.
Hope this cleared some things out.
Gino
"David Candy" <.> wrote in message
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Now we are getting somewhere. It's an AVI file. I'm not familar with
BSPlayer but I suspect I know why (esp for multimedia files which is why I
kept asking for full details).
I'm familar with MPlayer so you have to test this hypothsis against the
specifics of your program.
If one wanted to change a file from WMPlayer to MPlayer2 (2 of the 3 media
players in XP) then in XP there is an additional registry key that lists
what formats a program supports. If not listed (as most programs don't - but
MS multimedia programs are) then you can open any file with the program. But
if listed only those files listed can be assigned to the program.
For WMPlayer (Windows Media Player) the key is at
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\wmplayer.exe\SupportedTypes
Only those extensions listed here can have WMPlayer on the Open With menu. I
would imagine BSPlayer is similar and would be something like this
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\BSPlayer.exe\SupportedTypes
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" - 781" <lets@have.org> wrote in message
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> How specific can I be?
> I listed the steps that have always worked for me before and what I've
> done,
> but here it goes again.
>
> 1. I want to open an .avi file with BSPlayer Pro and not Media Player as
> it's the default program to play movies.
> 2. I Right click, Choose Open With, Clicked Browse(because it's not listed
> in the Open With Screen) and choose the program from Program
> Files/BSPlayer
> Pro.
>
> Now in the past, when I chose the program, the browse screen would close
> and
> the program would appear in the Other Programs section of Open With
> screen.
> Now it doesn't appear in that section.
>
> I am thinking it's a registry problem.
> Gino
>
>
> "David Candy" <.> wrote in message
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> That's not true for Win ME or Win XP
>
> If someone ever posts a proper question on this topic I might answer as I
> suspect I know the cause.But not one person has ever posted a proper
> problem
> description.
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> "Alan Edwards" <edwards@southcom.com.au> wrote in message
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>> Programs don't appear unless they have an association with a valid
>> Open action.
>> Try using Explorer-Tools-Folder Options-File Types to create an
>> association for the file type you are concerned with.
>>
>> ...Alan
>> --
>> Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
>>
http://dts-l.org/index.html
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:28:19 -0700, " - 781"
>> <lets@have.org> wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all. I was wondering if I could get help on this certain problem.
>>>
>>>When I right click on a file, Open with>Choose Program, a list comes up
>>>of
>>>available programs to use. When I click on Browse and find the program
>>>that
>>>I want to use, and click Open, that particular program doesn't appear on
>>>the
>>>Open With screen. In the past the program that I browsed, used to appear
>>>under Other Programs, and I would be able to open my file with that
>>>program.
>>>Has something got corrupted in my registry? Why am I unable to get any
>>>program appear on the screen so I can choose it and open the file with
>>>that
>>>program?
>>>
>>>Please help out. Thanks in advance.
>>>Gino
>>>
>>>
>
>
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