How do I unassociate files?

D

Darryl Fulton

Need help on how to unassociate a file. I associated *.3gp with Rhapsody.
I think it would be better not associated at all. Even though I have
Roxio, I want all *.3gp files to have no program association...period.

What do I do...?
 
J

John Shaw [MSFT]

As far as I know, this is not possible in Windows Vista. Your only option
would be to associate that extension with some other program.
 
G

Guest

Darryl Fulton said:
Need help on how to unassociate a file. I associated *.3gp with Rhapsody.
I think it would be better not associated at all. Even though I have
Roxio, I want all *.3gp files to have no program association...period.

What do I do...?
Click to expand...

Hi I have the same problem with vista, i hate it, I tried so much
unassociated the file type and its impossible, but there is one way, its to
use the windows restore and i could unassociate the file, but i know that is
no so helpful when the association occurs many time ago.
 
R

Ramesh, MS-MVP

An utility to unassociate file types in Windows Vista:
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/231/1/

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com




Darryl Fulton said:
Need help on how to unassociate a file. I associated *.3gp with Rhapsody.
I think it would be better not associated at all. Even though I have
Roxio, I want all *.3gp files to have no program association...period.

What do I do...?
Click to expand...

Hi I have the same problem with vista, i hate it, I tried so much
unassociated the file type and its impossible, but there is one way, its to
use the windows restore and i could unassociate the file, but i know that is
no so helpful when the association occurs many time ago.
 
R

Ronnie Vernon MVP

Ramesh

Excellent tool. Good job!

--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


An utility to unassociate file types in Windows Vista:
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/231/1/

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com




Darryl Fulton said:
Need help on how to unassociate a file. I associated *.3gp with Rhapsody.
I think it would be better not associated at all. Even though I have
Roxio, I want all *.3gp files to have no program association...period.

What do I do...?
Click to expand...

Hi I have the same problem with vista, i hate it, I tried so much
unassociated the file type and its impossible, but there is one way, its to
use the windows restore and i could unassociate the file, but i know that is
no so helpful when the association occurs many time ago.
 
R

Ramesh, MS-MVP

Thank you Ron :)

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Ramesh

Excellent tool. Good job!

--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


An utility to unassociate file types in Windows Vista:
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/231/1/

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com




Darryl Fulton said:
Need help on how to unassociate a file. I associated *.3gp with Rhapsody.
I think it would be better not associated at all. Even though I have
Roxio, I want all *.3gp files to have no program association...period.

What do I do...?
Click to expand...

Hi I have the same problem with vista, i hate it, I tried so much
unassociated the file type and its impossible, but there is one way, its to
use the windows restore and i could unassociate the file, but i know that is
no so helpful when the association occurs many time ago.
 
X

Xenomorph

Well, this is pretty neat.

That looks just like *my* program that does a similar thing.

I have a stand-alone version called "XdN File Association".

http://xenomorph.net/?page_id=492

The one I made doesn't remove the extension from the system completly. It
just removes the associations for the current user only, in case the
extension is associated with the wrong program accidently.



An utility to unassociate file types in Windows Vista:
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/231/1/

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com




Darryl Fulton said:
Need help on how to unassociate a file. I associated *.3gp with Rhapsody.
I think it would be better not associated at all. Even though I have
Roxio, I want all *.3gp files to have no program association...period.

What do I do...?
Click to expand...

Hi I have the same problem with vista, i hate it, I tried so much
unassociated the file type and its impossible, but there is one way, its to
use the windows restore and i could unassociate the file, but i know that is
no so helpful when the association occurs many time ago.
 
X

Xenomorph

I know a program was posted already, but I made something a few months ago
specifically to help with this.

XdN File Association:
http://xenomorph.net/?page_id=492

If you accidently associate something with an extension, my program can
remove the association for the current user and return the file extension
back to the *system* default.

(A similar function is also part of my XdN Tweaker program.)
 

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