OK, no problem but I am in the dark. I don't know what file association you
are trying to establish. You must know the file extension for teh
association.
I suggest you do the following first:
You open you Command Prompt (run as administrator) by doing Start>>All
Programs (in the left pane)>>Accessories>>Command Prompt>> Right Click>>Run
as administrator>>
A black window will show up on desktop.
Go there and type:
assoc .exe
You will get a response:
..exe=execfile
<Type this:>
assoc .pdf
You will get a response:
..pdf=AcroExch.Document
Etc.
You have to find out what extension you document or program has. You did not
give any clue for me to be specific.
Now what we had above was just demonstration, I mean display of existing
associations.
Using the same command you can establish a new association.
Aside from the link I provided in the previous post, this is another link to
MS description of the same command:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323526
This is the quote:
To change the file type association for .htm files to HTML Document
(htmlfile), type assoc
..htm=htmlfile at the command prompt, and then press ENTER.
This command needs some explanation. .htm extension is a help file extension
that has been deprecated with Vista's arrival. The whole system of help
files is now managed I think thru on-line help. .htm files that still
persist for some reason and I have tons of them are in trouble. There is no
reader to open them up. One of the ways to get around the problem (aside
from dragging an XP htm reader to Vista which also may cause problems) is to
associate htm with an html file reader. And this is precisely what this
command does. Understood?
You gave so little information that I cannot guess any further. If you want
more you will have to give more specifics.
