Play turn "open" way tricks

1. Select and change the open mode

In a Windows system, if you encounter an unknown type of file, double-clicking the file will bring up the open With dialog box, allowing you to choose how such files are opened, and we can also use this method to change the file association.

Select a file to change the open way, and then right-click to select "Open with → Select a program", in the pop-up window, select "Always use this program to open these files", in the list box, select the program you want to use, if the list box does not have the program you want to click the "Other" button to find programs, This makes it possible to change the way the file is opened.

Little Tips

★ In Windows 98, right-clicking a file of the registered type directly does not show the "Open with" option, you can change the open mode by holding down the SHIFT key and then right-clicking.

★ Open Browser, enter 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 opened the file ending with the extension.

2. Add Universal Open Mode

In general, there is only one "open" command in the right-click shortcut menu (that is, a file has only one open mode). We can add the file opening method directly in the right-click menu. Here's an example of a txt text file that you can open with Notepad or open with Word.

Open My Computer, select tools → Folder Options, select the File Types tab in the Pop-up dialog box, select the text document you want to add the open with, and click the Advanced button, which lists two actions you can do with right-click on a text file: Open (on) and print (printing ), click the New button and enter the name of the action in the Popup dialog box (for example, "Open with word"), which will appear in the right-click shortcut menu. Then click the Browse button and select the application to perform the action. Finally, click OK to save the settings.

Now right-click *. TXT text file, you can see a "Open with Word" command in addition to the usual open command (open by default, opened in Notepad) in the shortcut menu, and click it to open the file in Word.

Similarly, other file types that need to be opened in multiple programs can be set in the same way.

3, please "Open the experts"

Sometimes we take different actions on the same file and use different open methods as needed. such as BMP files, sometimes you may open the browser in the drawing or ACDSee, and also use Photoshop or fireworks to open the editing process. For the same file, there are so many open methods, the system will only use a program by default, if you use the method described above to add open mode will make the right-click menu becomes cumbersome, there is no better way to solve it?

Openexpert (Open expert) is a small software designed for this purpose, with the ability to easily manage how files are opened. After you install Openexpert, right-click a type file and see two more things open: Add application and configure program to open it.

Do "Add Application", pop up a window to select the application to add, do you think this window familiar? It is similar to Windows open Mode window, but the application listed here is much more, and its role is to add open programs, Under Windows is the change opener.

The Openexpert can also be configured for open mode. Right-click a file, under Open with, select "Configure the program to open it", configure it in the main interface of Openexpert, and click "Add" and "remove" to increase or decrease the programs that open such files. In addition, the lower left corner of the window by the arrow buttons, you can adjust the order of these programs, ranked the highest priority, that is, double-click the file to open with the program.

Little Tips

In the Openexpert "Options" menu can also set some parameters, in addition, we can also save the modified file association information, so that after reinstalling the operating system will not be associated with the operation of the file, which through the "File" menu under the "Import" and "Export" command to complete, It's easy to operate.

4, the software itself has the authority

In order to prevent other software to change the association of their files, many software can set the file association, such as the aforementioned Winamp, you can click the "+" button in the upper left corner of the Winamp, select "Options → parameter settings" from the menu to open the Winamp Parameter Settings dialog box, on the left side of the dialog box select " File type ", the right window will appear can open with Winamp file type, if you see some file types are unchecked, it must be realone and other software to blame, all you have to do is to select the other files to be associated. If "Associated song type at startup" is checked, Winamp will automatically check for these files when it is started.

Little Tips

Not only Winamp can set the way the file is opened, but many other software, such as WinZip, ACDSee, Windows Media player, and so on, are set to be similar to Winamp.

5. Manually Change file associations

The function of the software itself to set the way to open a file has some limitations, it can only set whether to use the software to open a file it supports, and for more than the type of files it does not support the inability to do. Fortunately, Windows gives us a way to change how the file opens: Open My Computer, select tools → folder Options, click the File Types tab, locate the file type and select it, and then click the Change button, and a dialog box with open with will pop up. Select a new program in the dialog box so that later files of this type will be opened with the program.

Little Tips

★ There are many types of files registered here, it is time-consuming to find, press the search for the first letter of the file type can be quickly found, for example, to find a zip file, just press the Z-key cursor will be moved to a file type beginning with Z.

★ In total commander, select File → file association, pop Up an association dialog box, select the file type you want to modify in the file extension drop-down box, click New Association, select a new program to open for that type of file, and then click OK to complete the setup.

When you double-click a file in Explorer, it automatically opens with its affiliate program, which seems to be all that for granted. However, the time is long, the trouble will come with it! such as: Originally with Winamp listen to the song to listen well, since installed RealOne, file icon on the makeover, and double-click MP3 music file opened is also RealOne window. Sometimes you want to use Notepad to open an unknown type of file, or use a different program to edit the HTM file, it is not easy to think of a simple double-click?...... Such questions, this article describes the "open way" trick can let you get your wish.