Registry - File Tpe association

[Thomas Smith]

Have heretofore been able to chase done File Type assocations for text
files by looking into registry:
Key: "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt"
"Name": (default)
"Data"="txt_auto_file"
then
Key: "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\txt_auto_file\shell\open\command"
"Name": (default)
"Data"="C:\PROGRA~1\ACCESS~1\WORDPAD.EXE "%1'"'

With WinXP, this no longer works. I get:
Key: "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt"
"Name": (default)
"Data"="txtfile"
then
Key: "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\txtfile\shell\open\command"
"Name": (default)
"Data"="%SystemRoot%\system32\NOTEPAD.EXE %1"

No matter that the File Type association is really 'wordpad.exe'.

 

[David Candy]

The first one used Open With on a non XP machine (98 perhaps) and someone ticked Allways Use This Program. XP works totally different and only creates File Associations for programs that don't already have one. Else Open With supercedes File Associations (which are two different things in XP not Open With editing File Associations as in 98 (and XP if there isn't already an association - but it still writes the Open With info and it still supercedes the file association)).