re: Open With Programs not working!
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 8:43 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(23824 messages posted)
You can remove the unwanted Open With listing by removing the previous change you
made in the registry.
Aside from that, I don't think you can make a non-windows app behave like one.
On Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 12:31 am, RayJay wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I have a file with a non-windows extension (.LUP to be precise) which doesn't have
>an associated Windows-specific program. I have got a program called HexEdit (simple
>Hex and ASCII editor) which I didn't install (since it came from a colleague in
a
>folder with just the .exe and files needed to run the program) and so Windows didn't
>populate the "Open With" programs menu with the program.
>
>When I try to add it (by Browsing for the .exe in the "Open With" menu) I click
on
>the .exe, and click "OK" yet it doesn't get added to the list.
>
>I then tried to add the shortcut to the program to this list, but then I get the
>error message "[This program] is not a valid Win32 application".
>
>I've added the shortcut to the Programs folder in the Start Menu, yet still to no
>avail.
>
>So my 2 questions are:
>
>1) How can I get rid of the shortcut which has now appeared in the "Open With" programs
>menu?
>
>and 2) Is there a way to get this .exe file to appear in this list (possibly by
some
>Registry hack) without installing any 3rd-party programs (since IT at the company
>I work at gets really shirty about that sort of thing)?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>RayJay.
>
>(P.S.) I'm running Windows XP Pro, SP2.
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