I have a question about Edit File Types in Windows Vista:

I like to use file types to create a print directory listings. MS directions for Vista are the same as they were for XP but there is no file types settings for folders in Vista default files. Help is needed!

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They just don't put it up there as a default item in Vista. R. click on the bar and scroll down to "more". You will be offered more choices than you want to deal with. You may also drag these headers to any order you want.

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I may be being dense today but r click on what bar where? Sorry if I sound like a newbee but I'm not finding things where I'm used to finding them in prior versions. Thanks

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At this point I hope we are talking about the same thing. Don't be ashamed for not having all this just instantly poured in you ear. Have met anyone that got it that way yet. You are in "My Computer" or in the old days we just called it Explorer. Lets say we are looking at your C: drive. On the left you have a smaller Column that shows the drive letter and the folder under it. On the right you have the bulk of your screen and toward the top you have three headers and the third one should have little to no shading or colour. It has multiple columns titled with items like "Name", "Date" and "Size". I am assuming this is where you want to have the "Type" you spoke of and it is here that you R. Click to get you options that are vast! If you are talking about where you choose what type of file you want to save a file as like in your word processor, that is a function of that program and has not changed just by having Vista on your machine.

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I believe we are talking about two different things. In Windows XP you could clink on folder options in Control panel or explorer under tools and see a tab named file types. There you could change the way programs opened or assign tasks to a file type or component like a file folder, I used to be able to create a batch file that would print a directory listing from a right click menu. That tab is no longer listed here and I want to know if anyone has found a way around this. I hope I'm making myself clear. Thanks for your responses.

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I think we are on the same page now! Try looking in Control Panel/Default Programs/Set Associations. They had added so much to this they felt it necessary to make a category all by itself for it. I like the idea of printing the file assoc. out.

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