Vista, and Windows 7 allow end users to establish more programs for the Open With ... context menu without requiring any special tools or registry manipulation. The renaming of the option to be about choosing Defaults is misleading. You can establish an additional program for one execution and it is remembered for the context menu. I have not checked to see whether there is an Administrator privileges requirement though.
- Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Rod Lockwood [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 05:51 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: File associations - LibreOffice and OpenOffice on Windows 7 W7 Does not have the file types tab that XP had. However, you can download the File Types Manager (http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/file_types_manager.html) and use it to create a second open option from the default. Say you want LO to be the default, then you might add an "Open in OO" option. I used this for my text files dilemma where I wanted Notepad for quick and dirty editing or viewing and my text editor for when I want to edit polished files. If you are familiar with editing file types in XP, it is fairly similar in File Types Manager. Mostly it is that the interface is different. Otherwise you would have to edit the registry directly. -- Rod Lockwood <[email protected]> On Mon, 21 May 2012 16:13:49 -0400, James Knott <[email protected]> wrote: > I previously installed OpenOffice on my computer and recently > LibreOffice. I have also installed the various free Microsoft viewers. > One thing I've noticed is that I can't have both LO and OO associated > with the various file types. Please note that I'm just talking about > association, not default association, so that when I right click on a > file I can chose from among LO, OO or the Microsoft viewer. At the > moment, my choices are just LO and the viewer. If I want to use > OpenOffice, I have to open the app first and then the file. > > Any way around this? > > tnx jk > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
