Right Click context menu for images

[RoseW]

I have two entries for the same program on the right click Open With
menu for image files. Looked in all the expected places in the registry
but I don't see a double entry. What would be the procedure to remove
one?
OR....if I remove that listing all together and re-enter with one of the
context edit utilities - would that be a solution?
RoseW

 

[Wesley Vogel]

You may want to look all of these over before proceeding.

Clear Dynamic "Open With" Lists
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_open_with.htm

How to Remove Programs from the Open With List
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=258860

Clear unwanted items in Open-with lists
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/OpenWith.htm

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

As Wesley said. If that does not help, generate the file association
information and post the log here.

FileExtInfo - View the association settings for a file type easily:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/fileextinfo.htm

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Cool!

Ramesh, you are a busy fella. Faster than F3 in the Registry Editor and
faster than
RegScanner for searching one file type.

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Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[RoseW]

In Ramesh, MS-MVP <[email protected]> typed:
| As Wesley said. If that does not help, generate the file association
| information and post the log here.
|
| FileExtInfo - View the association settings for a file type easily:
| http://windowsxp.mvps.org/fileextinfo.htm
|
|
| || You may want to look all of these over before proceeding.
||
|| Clear Dynamic "Open With" Lists
|| http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_open_with.htm
||
|| How to Remove Programs from the Open With List
|| http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=258860
||
|| Clear unwanted items in Open-with lists
|| http://windowsxp.mvps.org/OpenWith.htm
||
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|| Hope this helps. Let us know.
||
|| Wes
|| MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
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|| In || RoseW <[email protected]> hunted and pecked:
||| I have two entries for the same program on the right click Open With
||| menu for image files.||| RoseW

My solution was to download the freeware Open Expert from
http://www.baxbex.com and it worked perfectly.
The recent installation of the new Corel Paint Shop Pro X rearranged the
right click context menu. In Open Expert I could see the actual coding
for the path. Somehow an orphan reference to a very old Paint Shop Pro
in the registry had been picked up by the Corel installation. It was
that old it had ~ in the name listing( for e.g. Paint~) Oddly enough it
would open the still in place previous version 9 of this software.
Open Expert allows shuffling up or down of the items in the right
context open with menu.
Now my menu listing is tidy and in order.
I have saved the references given in these responses and I thank you.
RoseW

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Thank you, Wes Just thought this might come in handy while
troubleshooting file asso. / open-with related issues.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

No problem, RoseW. Thanks for your feedback.