Default Programs

When you select Default Programs, the first option is Set Your Program
Defaults. In this, they give you a list of programs to select defaults for.
This list contains some, but not all potential programs which you might want
to select defaults for. Other than going to the next option Associate A File
Type With A Program, how do you add an "other" program to the Program list in
the first option?

Also, I've noticed that sometimes when installing a program update, it will
say This Program Is Not Currently The Default Program for this function, Do
You Want To Set Defaults? If you select yes, it goes to a screen listing the
program in question above and below all its potential file associations which
you can select. How does one get to this type of page for "other" programs?

uvbogden;489493 Wrote:
> When you select Default Programs, the first option is Set Your Program
> Defaults. In this, they give you a list of programs to select defaults
> for.
> This list contains some, but not all potential programs which you might
> want
> to select defaults for. Other than going to the next option Associate A
> File
> Type With A Program, how do you add an "other" program to the Program
> list in
> the first option?
>
> Also, I've noticed that sometimes when installing a program update, it
> will
> say This Program Is Not Currently The Default Program for this
> function, Do
> You Want To Set Defaults? If you select yes, it goes to a screen
> listing the
> program in question above and below all its potential file associations
> which
> you can select. How does one get to this type of page for "other"
> programs?

Hi Bruce,

I do not believe you can add programs to the Default Programs list. So
far, I have only seen programs by Microsoft in this list.

To get to the "other page" with a list of default associations for that
program see this tutorial. (Step 6)

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/83...ociations.html

Shawn


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Default Programs:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756951.aspx

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Default Programs’ functionality is built into the Operating System as a series of Control Panels and open APIs. For an application to use the control panels or APIs it needs to register at install time to be part of Default Programs by writing a specific schema. This will allow the application to show up in the Default Programs control panels so a user can restore the applications default file associations and protocols at any given time.
Once an application has registered with Default Programs the application can take advantage of new functionality provided through APIs. Default Programs provides APIs to:

Restore all registered defaults
Restore single registered default
Query for the owner of a specific default file association/protocol/start menu canonical
Launch Defaults UI for a specific app
Clear all per user associations

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"uvbogden" <> wrote in message news:8C7FCE82-DC8A-4C2A-8410-...
When you select Default Programs, the first option is Set Your Program
Defaults. In this, they give you a list of programs to select defaults for.
This list contains some, but not all potential programs which you might want
to select defaults for. Other than going to the next option Associate A File
Type With A Program, how do you add an "other" program to the Program list in
the first option?

Also, I've noticed that sometimes when installing a program update, it will
say This Program Is Not Currently The Default Program for this function, Do
You Want To Set Defaults? If you select yes, it goes to a screen listing the
program in question above and below all its potential file associations which
you can select. How does one get to this type of page for "other" programs?