On 11/03/2009 00:13, Stephen Grant Brown wrote:
Hi Harold,
I am getting lost with
Assuming you are using Windows:
- Open an explorer window
- Go to Folder Options>File Types
I am using Microsoft Vista.
Vista is one of several versions of Windows including (but not limited
to) XP, 2000 and Vista. Vista itself has versions including (but not
limited to) Home Basic and Business. So if you are using some version
of Vista you are by definition using a version of Windows.
Do you mean open "Computer" from the start up menu and then "Tools",
then "folder options"?
I cannot see "File Types"
Sorry about having to repost.
No need to apologise for reposting; you might want to apologise for
using Vista ;-).
It seems that, as in many other respects, Vista is different from all
previous versions of Windows. I *think* the File Types menu is accessed
via Control Panel>Default Programs but I'm not sure. You need a Vista
guru. In previous versions of Windows you could do three different
things for any given *type* of file as defined by the file's "extension"
(.doc, .xls, .odt, .html, ...):
1. change the program that runs automatically when you *open* a file
of the given type either by double clicking it or by *right*
clicking it and choosing Open
2. change the program that runs automatically when you right click a
file of the given type and choose some other action than Open,
such as Edit or Display or whatever actions are available from the
right-click menu
3. Add new actions to the right click menu for files of the given
type and define which program you want to run when you choose this
action. So, for example, you could invent an action called
"encrypt" for files of type ".txt" (text) and tell Windows to run
C:\Program Files\myprogs\encrypt.exe" when you choose that action
from the right click menu.
In non-Vista versions of Windows these things come under the heading
"File Associations". In Vista I think it's called "default programs"
but I'm afraid I don't even know if all these things are possible. I'm
pretty sure #1 is. I'm fairly sure #2 is. I'm very doubtful about #3.
Unfortunately it's #3 I was getting at. I want you to add an "edit"
action to files of type ".html". and define OpenOffice's swriter.exe as
the program to perform the action. Perhaps if there is an "edit" action
already defined you could use #2 above but I don't know how in Vista.
Sorry. Perhaps someone else on this list can help you. ***Please***
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
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