"Choose Program"dialogue in "Open With" not responding

[Leongee]

On my XP Pro SP2 system when I right-click on a file, then "Open With,"
although a number of shortcuts appear, when I click on "Choose Program," I
get an error message. Yet I am able to open the respective file with the
appropriate applicaton, but can not do so with "Choose Program." All my file
associations are OK -- followed the fix on Doug Knox's page.

Any ideas?

Leongee

 

[Wesley Vogel]

And the error message is........???

 

[Leongee]

And the error message is........???

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Sorry about that -- the error message is: "This file does not have a program
associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the
Folder Options control panel."

As I said in my previous posting, all my file associations are OK. I only
get this message when I click on "Choose Program."

LeonGee

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Have a look at this...

Open With
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_o.htm#openwith

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

Adding to Wesley's advice:

Open Regedit and navigate to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Unknown\shell\openas\command

In the right-pane, double-click (default) and set it's value to:

%SystemRoot%\system32\rundll32.exe %SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,OpenAs_RunDLL %1

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org

And the error message is........???

-------------
Sorry about that -- the error message is: "This file does not have a program
associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the
Folder Options control panel."

As I said in my previous posting, all my file associations are OK. I only
get this message when I click on "Choose Program."

LeonGee

 

[Leongee]

Adding to Wesley's advice:

Open Regedit and navigate to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Unknown\shell\openas\command

In the right-pane, double-click (default) and set it's value to:

%SystemRoot%\system32\rundll32.exe
%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,OpenAs_RunDLL %1

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org

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Thank you both Wesley and Ramesh. Eventually I was able to get the "Open
With" window to appear after selecting "Choose Program" from Open With ...
For the purposes of future reference, here is what was done to the registry.

First, when I navigated to "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Unknown\shell\openas\command"
the Default's value was already set to: "%SystemRoot%\system32\rundll32.exe
%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,OpenAs_RunDLL %1" as suggested by Ramesh.

However, under "shell", in addition to "openas", there was another "key"
called "open" but its string "(Default)" was blank. I therefore entered the
(Default) value to read "rundll32.exe shell32.dll,OpenAs_RunDLL %1". After
returning to the desktop, pressing F5, I then checked a graphic file, and
the "Open With" window with all associated applications appeared.

Thanks for your help. You steered me in the right registry settings, to
enter the appropriate values.

LeonGee

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

You're welcome LeonGee!

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org



Adding to Wesley's advice:

Open Regedit and navigate to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Unknown\shell\openas\command

In the right-pane, double-click (default) and set it's value to:

%SystemRoot%\system32\rundll32.exe
%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,OpenAs_RunDLL %1

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org

--------------

Thank you both Wesley and Ramesh. Eventually I was able to get the "Open
With" window to appear after selecting "Choose Program" from Open With ....
For the purposes of future reference, here is what was done to the registry.

First, when I navigated to "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Unknown\shell\openas\command"
the Default's value was already set to: "%SystemRoot%\system32\rundll32.exe
%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,OpenAs_RunDLL %1" as suggested by Ramesh.

However, under "shell", in addition to "openas", there was another "key"
called "open" but its string "(Default)" was blank. I therefore entered the
(Default) value to read "rundll32.exe shell32.dll,OpenAs_RunDLL %1". After
returning to the desktop, pressing F5, I then checked a graphic file, and
the "Open With" window with all associated applications appeared.

Thanks for your help. You steered me in the right registry settings, to
enter the appropriate values.

LeonGee