On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Charles Marcus <cmar...@media-brokers.com> wrote: > On 2011-02-17 7:37 AM, Karl Lambert wrote: >> That does not work on my windows xp machine. Pretty bothersome. > > I have had a few times when setting the file associations with 'Open > with' did not work, and it turned out to be registry permission > problems, but it was painstaking, and honestly the easiest way to fix it > I found was an in-place re-install of windows... >
Linux is a great solution to this problem.... :-) > Reinstalling/Repair Installing OOo wouldn't fix the problem... > AFAICT, it only works with the first installation of anything that handles a particular file type. All other changes appear to require manual intervention. Still, that really isn't OOo's fault, or LibO either - it's the file manager's. > I opened a bug about this with OOo asking/begging for a proper File > Associations Manager, that would also include the ability to fix busted > permissions on registry entries, but was told to go away... maybe I'll > try again with LibO... > I don't know the technical details involved, but I suspect that, without a universal API for file managers to do this sort of thing, it won't happen for LO, either. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
