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re: Open jpgs with Photoshop only
Tuesday, October 12, 2004 at 5:19 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Chris
(1 messages posted)
Thanks Lauren, this worked for me to tell XP to open Adobe's new .DNG format with
PS. However, I did not have to go through the repetitive "do it several times until..."
steps you describe. Everything worked smoothly first time. I'm using XP2. Maybe MS
cleaned up for this release.
On Wednesday, July 28, 2004 at 5:09 pm, Lauren wrote:
>I had the same problem and none of these suggestions worked for me. Here's the crazy
>dance I did that finally got this to work:
>
>1.) Go into My Computer>Tools>Folder Options>File Types
>2.) Select your first file type (.gif or whatever) and click the "Change" button.
>Select a program - any program, from the list. Do this a few times until the "Restore"
>button finally changes into "Advanced." Don't ask me why this doesn't work to begin
>with, but whatever, ya?
>3.) Once the Advanced button becomes available on the File Types tab, click it.
Select
>"open" from the Actions box. and click the "Edit.." button.
>4.) Click the "Browse.." button and browse to your photoshop.exe file. Double-click
>it and the "Application used to perform action" box should update with the path
to
>photoshop.exe.
>5.) Click OK to go back to the "Edit File Type" window. Click OK again to return
>to the File Types tab. Photoshop should now be listed as the program we use to open
>this file type.
>BUT WAIT - we're not done. If you still have problems...
>6.) Right-click any file that's not working right, and choose Properties. Click
the
>"Change" button.
>7.) Select Photoshop from the programs list. Click OK. Double-click to open the
file.
>Swear, because it opens in Windows Picture/Fax viewer again. Calm yourself, proceed
>to step 8
>8.) Repeat step 7. On your second attempt to open the file, you'll find that it
opens
>in Photoshop, like a charm...a very conveluded charm, but a working one, nonetheless.
>
>I fancy a straight registry edit-type fix to this weird little dance, but sadly
don't
>know enough about it to delete and recreate the corrupted keys on my own.
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