I am a website designer and this is my first post and frankly I am getting very close to throwing in the towel and Vista with it and returning to XP. (I notice today via Zednet that MS has announced a further extension to XP support and is accelerating its Windows 7 OS.) However before abandoning Vista as I have so much time already invested in this so called "upgrade" I found this forum and thought well why not give them a go at trying to solve my problem(s). Vista frustrates me because it tries to rule my computing experience and removes from me much of my control. 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. 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. I look forward to your replies and thanks in advance. -- 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 am > getting very close to throwing in the towel and Vista with it and > returning to XP. (I notice today via Zednet that MS has announced a > further extension to XP support and is accelerating its Windows 7 OS.) > > However before abandoning Vista as I have so much time already invested > in this so called "upgrade" I found this forum and thought well why not > give them a go at trying to solve my problem(s). > > Vista frustrates me because it tries to rule my computing experience > and removes from me much of my control. > > 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. > > 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. > > I look forward to your replies and thanks in advance. Hello Chipphh, You can use Default Programs to set the individual file extension types to Open With the Paint Shop Pro 7 .exe file as the current default program instead. This tutorial will help show you how to. http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/69758-default-programs.html Hope this helps, Shawn -- Brink *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.* '*VISTA FORUMS*' (http://www.vistax64.com) *Please post feedback to help others.*
Thank you Brink that did the trick. I will look at all the tutorials before posting queries that have been answered in them. Cheers -- chiphh
Your welcome Chiphh. No problem. Feel free to ask any question you have in one of the forums. Shawn -- Brink *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.* '*VISTA FORUMS*' (http://www.vistax64.com) *Please post feedback to help others.*
