1, select and change the open method
In the Windows system, if you encounter an unknown type of file, double-click this file will pop up "Open the way" dialog The box lets you choose how to open such files, and we can also use this method to change file associations.
Select a file to change the open mode, and then right click and select “Open with → Select Program" in the pop-up window, first select “ Always use the program to open these files ”, in the list Select the program you want to use in the box. If there is no program in the list box, you can click the “Other” button to find the program, so you can change the way the file is opened.
In Windows 98, right-clicking on a registered type of file does not appear in the "Open with" option, you can hold down the Shift key and then right click, you can Change the way it is opened.
★Open the browser and type http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=extension&goButton=Go or http://shell.windows.com/fileassoc/0409/xml/redir.asp ?Ext = extension to query the program that opens the file ending with the extension.
2, add a universal open method
In general, there is only one "Open" dialog in the context menu (that is, a file has only one open method). We can add the way the file is opened directly in the context menu. The following "TXT text file can be opened with Notepad, or open with Word" as an example to illustrate.
Open "My Computer", select "Tools & Rarr; Folder Options", select the "File Type" tab in the pop-up dialog box, and select the "Text Document" to which you want to add the Open Method. ”, click the “Advanced” button, which lists two operations that can be performed by right-clicking on a text file: open and print, click the “New” button, in Enter the name of the operation in the pop-up dialog box (for example: “Open with Word), this prompt message will appear in the shortcut menu. Then click the “Browse” button to select the application to perform the operation. Finally click “OK" to save the settings.
Now right click on the *.TXT text file, in addition to the usual "Open" command in the shortcut menu (the default open mode, open with Notepad), you can also see an additional “Open the ” command with Word, click it to open the file with Word.
Also for other file types that need to be opened in multiple programs, the same method can be used.
3, please go out & ldquo; open the experts & rdquo;
Sometimes we will take different actions on the same file, depending on the need to use a different open method. For example, BMP files may sometimes be opened in drawing or ACDSee, and edit processing will be opened in Photoshop or Fireworks as needed. For the same file, there are so many ways to open, the system will only use one program to open by default. If you add the open method by the method described above, the right-click menu will become very cumbersome. Is there any better way to solve it?
OpenExpert is a small software designed specifically for this purpose, which makes it easy to manage how files are opened. After installing OpenExpert, right-click on a type file and you can see two more items in the open mode: "Add Application" and “Configure the program to open it”.
Execute “add application”, pop up a window to select the application to be added, do you think this window is familiar? It is similar to the open mode window under Windows, but the application listed here should Much more, and its role is to add open programs, under Windows is to change the open program.
OpenExpert can also configure the open mode. Right-click on a file and select “Configure the program to open it under “Open with", configure it in the main interface of OpenExpert, click “Add” and “Remove&rdquo To increase or decrease the procedure for opening such files. In addition, through the up and down arrow buttons in the lower left corner of the window, you can adjust the order of these programs, the highest priority is arranged in the top, that is, double-click the file to open with the program.
In the OpenExpert<;Options" menu, some parameters can be set. In addition, we can also export and save the modified file association information, so you don't have to do it after reinstalling the operating system. The operation of the associated file is done through the “import" & "export” command under the "File" menu, and the operation is also very simple.
4, the software itself has organs
In order to prevent other software to change the association of their own files, many software can set file associations, such as Winamp mentioned above, you can click on the top left corner of Winamp & ldquo; + & rdquo; glyph Button, select “Options →Parameter Settings" from the menu to open the “Winamp parameter settings” dialog box, select “file type” on the left side of the dialog box, the right window will appear open with Winamp File type, if you see that some file types are unchecked, it must be caused by other software such as RealOne. All you have to do is select other files to be associated. If you select “ associated song type at startup, Winamp will automatically check the file associations at startup.
Small tips
Not only Winamp can set the file opening method, many other software can also be used, such as WinZip, ACDSee, Windows Media Player, etc., the settings are similar to Winamp.
5, manually change the file association
through the software itself to set the file open mode has certain limitations, it can only set whether to use the software to open a certain type of file it supports, and for more More files that it doesn't support are powerless. Fortunately, Windows gives us a way to modify the way files are opened: open “my computer”, select “tools →folder options", click “file type”tab, find this Select the file type, and then click the “Change” button, a dialog box will pop up, and the new program will be selected in the dialog box, so that this type of file will be used later. The program is open.
★ There are a lot of file types registered here, it is very time-consuming to find. The first letter of the search file type can be found quickly. For example, to find the zip file, just press the Z key It will move to the file type starting with Z.
★In Total Commander, select “file →file association”, pop up an association dialog box, select the file type to be modified in the “file extension” folder, and click “New” Association & rdquo;, select the new program as the way to open this type of file, and then click the "OK" button to complete the settings.
When you double-click a file in the "Resource Manager", it automatically opens with its associated program, as if everything is geographically natural. However, after a long time, the trouble will follow! For example: I used Winamp to listen to the song well. After playing RealOne, the file icon will be changed, and the double-click MP3 music file will open the RealOne window. . Sometimes I want to use "Notepad" to open a file of unknown type, or use a different program to edit the htm file, is it not as convenient as a simple double click? … … and so on, the way this article describes & rdquo; high tricks can make you get what you want.