HOW TO SET DEFAULT PROGRAM TO OPEN FILES WINDOWS XP KEYGEN
This privacy notice provides an overview of our commitment to privacy and describes how we collect, protect, use and share personal information collected through this site. Pearson Education, Inc., 221 River Street, Hoboken, New Jersey 07030, (Pearson) presents this site to provide information about products and services that can be purchased through this site. When an extension isĪssociated with a particular file type, the extension is said to be Types that are associated with the registered extensions. The second part of HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT lists the various file Two or three times that number on a system with many applications There are more thanģ00 such subkeys in a basic Windows XP installation, and there could easily be The first part of HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT consists of dozens of fileĮxtension subkeys (such as. Notice that it’s divided into two sections: Open the Registry Editor and examine the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT Registry to work with file types throughout this chapter, so let’s see how Registry," for details on understanding and using the Registry.) You use the
(See Chapter 8, "Getting to Know the Windows XP File Types and the RegistryĪs you might expect, everything Windows XP knows about file types is defined Powerful methods for manipulating and controlling the Windows XP file system, as Useless by imprudently renaming its extension.) However, it also leads to some
(For example, there is some danger that a novice user could render a file This method of determining file types is, no doubt, a poor design decision. Point of view of the user, the entire Windows XP file system rests on the Nothing else inherent in the file determines the file type so, at least from the txt extension, Windows XPĪssociates that extension with Notepad, so the file will always open in Notepad. The file type, in turn, determines the application that’s associated txt extension.Īs a reminder, you turn on file extensions by selecting WindowsĮxplorer’s Tools, Folder Options command, displaying the View tab, andĭeactivating the Hide File Extensions for Known File Types check box. For example, if you’re working in Notepad,Įvery file you save must have a. Similarly, with file extensions turned off, Windows XP forces under anĮxtension of your choice you to save a file using the default extensionĪssociated with an application. You try, you just end up with a file named. Index.html, you can’t do it with file extensions turned off. If you have a file named index.txt and you want to rename it to Unrealistically expects users to tell files apart just by examining their For example, Figureģ.1 shows a folder with 15 different files named Project. It’s often difficult to tell which file is which. If you have a folder with multiple documents that use the same primary name, Here are just a few of the problems this allegedly document-centric As you learned in Chapter 2, "Exploring Expertįile and Folder Techniques," Windows XP turns off file extensions byĭefault. Unfortunately, we’re stuck with Microsoft’s worship of theĭocument and all the problems that this worship creates. In other words, youĬan’t create documents unless you learn the ins and outs of anĪpplication, and you can’t share documents with others unless you use The reality is thatĪpplications are still too difficult to use and the capability to shareĭocuments between applications is still too problematic. People care only about the documents they create and not about the applications Public is that we live in a "document-centric" world. One of the fictions that Microsoft has tried to foist on the computer-using The next couple of sections tell you everything you need to know to get
To get the most out of this chapter, you need to understand some backgroundĪbout what a file type is and how Windows XP determines and works with file
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