Open with default options

Non-Technical Threads Chatting over the Back Fence
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Wondering if anyone knows how to set the default ‘option’ of the “Open
With” box to have this box UNchecked:

Always use the selected program to open this kind of file

By default in windows 7 this is checked. I have found docs online to
completely remove the checkbox or have it greyed out, but I would like
to have the option still there, just not checked by default.

We have had a couple different users somehow set all .exe’s on their
computer to open with something like adobe…sigh.

–
Stevo

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Is this what you’re looking for?

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/193368-always-use-selected-program-always-checked-unchecked.html

Looks like you have to download a registry file, but you can look at
that before installing it, to make sure there’s nothing hinky in there.

: )

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Susan
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Susan sounds like they ‘said’:
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Is this what you’re looking for?

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/193368-always-use-selected-progra
m-always-checked-unchecked.html

Looks like you have to download a registry file, but you can look at
that before installing it, to make sure there’s nothing hinky in
there.

: )[/color]

So my response to Susan’s comment is…

That is what I’m looking for, but it looks like a dll needs downloading
as well as modifying the registry. That is not a deal breaker, mind
you, just something else to investigate. :slight_smile:

–
Stevo

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Here’s one where it looks like you can create your own DLL:

http://blogs.msmvps.com/dmartin/blog/2011/09/12/how-to-display-the-open-with-dialog-box-with-the-always-associate-this-program-checkbox-unchecked-by-default/

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Susan
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Susan sounds like they ‘said’:
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Here’s one where it looks like you can create your own DLL:

http://blogs.msmvps.com/dmartin/blog/2011/09/12/how-to-display-the-ope
n-with-dialog-box-with-the-always-associate-this-program-checkbox-unch
ecked-by-default/[/color]

So my response to Susan’s comment is…

Thanks! I’ll look into that.

–
Stevo