re: Uninstalled ACDSee, now I cannot open pictures
Thursday, September 6, 2007 at 5:50 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Lee
(162 messages posted)
You will have to edit your registry to get it like it was before you used ACDSEE
as it uses non-standard methods to capture file associations and when it is uninstalled
it won't remove the offending items which causes the breakage.
When you use the "Open With" applet to create file associations on the fly as it
were, you enter into the registry a uniquely marked "chain" that results in the working
file association. ACDSEE does the same thing but uses their own "marker" which is
breaking the standard chain for some unknown reason. Consider the following chain
for log files which normally are not associated for any application.
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.log]
@="log_auto_file"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\log_auto_file]
@="LOG File"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\log_auto_file\shell]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\log_auto_file\shell\open]
@=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\log_auto_file\shell\open\command]
@="C:\\WINDOWS\\NOTEPAD.EXE \"%1\""
The unique Microsoft Windows "marker" for "Open With" assigned file association chains
is "_auto_file" which has been added onto "log" in order to create the "log_auto_file"
key "chain". ACDSEE should be using something else, but if they do use the same
thing then no wonder it's broke and MS can't get around it?
You need to start at
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpg]
and follow ACDSEE's chain to see where it all goes and then ultimately come back
and insert what MS had there to begin with or create your own file associations the
correct way. Which is way not fun at all.
It is rumored that irfanview can "fix" these broken file associations of ACDSEE,
however. Perhaps it's the quickest and easiest fix?
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