Open With in Explorer

[Guest]

I just installed Adobe Photoshop CS after using version 7 for a few years.
Now Photoshop is no longer on the Open With list when I right click on an
image file. Any ideas how to restore that functionality? By the way I did
select Choose Program when it didn't show up on the list. Navigated to
photoshop.exe and Windows failed to accept the change. The existing
association remained. I also tried making the change by selecting Properties
after right clicking on an image file and it did the same thing.

Thanks!

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

See if this helps:

Registering a program with the "Open With" dialog:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/openwithadd.htm

If that does not help, uninstall and then reinstall Photoshop

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Regards,

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


I just installed Adobe Photoshop CS after using version 7 for a few years.
Now Photoshop is no longer on the Open With list when I right click on an
image file. Any ideas how to restore that functionality? By the way I did
select Choose Program when it didn't show up on the list. Navigated to
photoshop.exe and Windows failed to accept the change. The existing
association remained. I also tried making the change by selecting Properties
after right clicking on an image file and it did the same thing.

Thanks!

 

[Guest]

Thanks Ramesh - that did the trick. I'm assuming the program you provided
made a change to the registry. I'd be curious to know what it does and if it
can be done directly by editing one of the subkeys?

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Yes. It sets the application path in the registry. Under
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\

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Regards,

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


Thanks Ramesh - that did the trick. I'm assuming the program you provided
made a change to the registry. I'd be curious to know what it does and if it
can be done directly by editing one of the subkeys?