Newbe - Edit file type

[mdashwor]

I am looking for a way to automatically change the application used to launch a file type. The same way by going into folder options, file types, edit file type, editing action for type. I need to change settings in the DDE Message and the DDE Application Not Running. Any ideas?

[herewasplato]

Welcome to the forum.

I think that all of that info is just written to the registry like in this post:

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...st&p=385560

Take a look in the help file under RegWrite.

You can use any one of a number of registry monitoring tools to determine what data changes before and after you manually make the changes you are interested in - then mimic those changes via AutoIt's RegWrite function.

-MSP-

[The Kandie Man]

Use FTYPE and ASSOC to set file associations.

Run(@ComSpec & " /c " & 'FTYPE txtfile=%SystemRoot%\system32\NOTEPAD.EXE %1', "", @SW_HIDE)
Run(@ComSpec & " /c " & 'ASSOC .txt=txtfile', "", @SW_HIDE)

By doing this you create a class of filetype that can be opened by a program you specify. Once you create that class of filetype, in this case, a text file, you can then add extensions that are text file extensions to the class. On the next line you see me add .txt files to the txtfile class which is opened with notepad.

I find using FTYPE and ASSOC much safer than directly editing the registry.

- The Kandie Man ;-)

[mdashwor]

Thank you both for the quick reply...