Adding Program to list of Selected programs

I am a website designer and this is my first post and frankly I a
getting very close to throwing in the towel and Vista with it an
returning to XP. (I notice today via Zednet that MS has announced
further extension to XP support and is accelerating its Windows 7 OS.

However before abandoning Vista as I have so much time alread
invested in this so called "upgrade" I found this forum and thought wel
why not give them a go at trying to solve my problem(s)

Vista frustrates me because it tries to rule my computing experienc
and removes from me much of my control

In this case I use older programs such as Paint Shop Pro 7 (much easie
to use than Paint Shop X but I can not find away of making the fil
formats I need (.jpg and .gif) associate with this program try as I ma
Vista stubbornly insists the files shoud be opened by ADobe Firework
which I use infrequently

I have looked at trying to use the add default programs to form th
file format associations but Vista only favours a number of programs i
its list of programs to choose from so does anyone know how to add t
this rather rare list

I look forward to your replies and thanks in advance

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chiphh

On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 15:32:39 -0500, chiphh <>
wrote:

>In this case I use older programs such as Paint Shop Pro 7 (much easier
>to use than Paint Shop X but I can not find away of making the file
>formats I need (.jpg and .gif) associate with this program try as I may
>Vista stubbornly insists the files shoud be opened by ADobe Fireworks
>which I use infrequently.

You might first open Fireworks and see if there is an option in it to
associate it with certain file types. If there is, uncheck .jpg and
..gif - in case it locks those associations as some programs do.

It is then a simple matter to set file association in PSP7. Open it,
click File, then Preferences. I think you can take it from there.

>I have looked at trying to use the add default programs to form the
>file format associations but Vista only favours a number of programs in
>its list of programs to choose from so does anyone know how to add to
>this rather rare list.

chiphh;854165 Wrote:
> I am a website designer and this is my first post and frankly I a
> getting very close to throwing in the towel and Vista with it an
> returning to XP. (I notice today via Zednet that MS has announced
> further extension to XP support and is accelerating its Windows 7 OS.
>
> However before abandoning Vista as I have so much time already investe
> in this so called "upgrade" I found this forum and thought well why no
> give them a go at trying to solve my problem(s)
>
> Vista frustrates me because it tries to rule my computing experienc
> and removes from me much of my control
>
> In this case I use older programs such as Paint Shop Pro 7 (much easie
> to use than Paint Shop X but I can not find away of making the fil
> formats I need (.jpg and .gif) associate with this program try as I ma
> Vista stubbornly insists the files shoud be opened by ADobe Firework
> which I use infrequently
>
> I have looked at trying to use the add default programs to form th
> file format associations but Vista only favours a number of programs i
> its list of programs to choose from so does anyone know how to add t
> this rather rare list
>
> I look forward to your replies and thanks in advance

Hello Chipphh,

You can use Default Programs to set the individual file extension type
to Open With the Paint Shop Pro 7 .exe file as the current defaul
program instead. This tutorial will help show you how to.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/69...t-programs.htm

Hope this helps
Shaw

--
Brin

*There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not as
them.*
'*VISTA FORUMS*' *Please post feedback to help others.*

Thank you Brink that did the trick. I will look at all the tutorial
before posting queries that have been answered in them

Cheer

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chiphh

Your welcome Chiphh. No problem. Feel free to ask any question you hav
in one of the forums.

Shaw

--
Brin

*There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not as
them.*
'*VISTA FORUMS*' *Please post feedback to help others.*