Default programs absurdity

[Andrew]

I don't know why, and I hope that this is not a joke, but I'm not able
to show other programs into the default programs list, and so I cannot
easily change the default file association.
Browsing some web page I saw, for example, a picture where Firefox was
included, but despite Firefox is on my pc, despite I manually change in
file extension the .htm and html files, the protocols http/s and ftp
(also here I installed CuteFTP) is associated with Explorer.
Certainly new IE7 over Vista is incredible better than previous IE
version or IE7 over XP, but this is my pc and I want to change basics
thing at least.
Any suggestion?

Thanks
Andrea

 

[Poprivet]

I don't know why, and I hope that this is not a joke, but I'm not able
to show other programs into the default programs list, and so I cannot
easily change the default file association.
Browsing some web page I saw, for example, a picture where Firefox was
included, but despite Firefox is on my pc, despite I manually change
in file extension the .htm and html files, the protocols http/s and
ftp (also here I installed CuteFTP) is associated with Explorer.
Certainly new IE7 over Vista is incredible better than previous IE
version or IE7 over XP, but this is my pc and I want to change basics
thing at least.
Any suggestion?

Thanks
Andrea

Andrea, if English isn't your native language, try to rephrase the question
more clearly so it's easier to read. If English IS your native language,
you need help in posting!

Pop`

 

[Rock]

I don't know why, and I hope that this is not a joke, but I'm not able
to show other programs into the default programs list, and so I cannot
easily change the default file association.
Browsing some web page I saw, for example, a picture where Firefox was
included, but despite Firefox is on my pc, despite I manually change in
file extension the .htm and html files, the protocols http/s and ftp
(also here I installed CuteFTP) is associated with Explorer.
Certainly new IE7 over Vista is incredible better than previous IE
version or IE7 over XP, but this is my pc and I want to change basics
thing at least.
Any suggestion?

Thanks
Andrea

I think you realize you're in the wronged group, eh? Meant to post to
vista.general.