Vista file association dialog boxes 
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They are poorly designed and they removed some features that were rather useful under Windows XP.
The problem with this dialog is that it only list Microsoft apps and nothing from other makers. It would be nice if you
could make changes to other software as well.
This dialog doesn’t look to bad at first but there is no way to edit the extension at all like in Windows XP and to
make matters worse it’s slow, make a single change and it will sputter for 30 seconds and then finally complete it’s task.
Perhaps the dumbest and probably least used, it makes no real sense.
You have three types, Microsoft Windows, Non-Microsoft and Custom. Sadly it’s not really useful and as
you can see below it doesn’t even work properly. I would like to set the browser to firefox but it does not show
up on the list.
It’s not all bad though, the autoplay dialog is pretty and effective but often apps are missing from it as well and there is no
way to manually to add them.
Is there a better way…….YES.
Finiderire
October 4th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Hi,
-Set Default Programs : Firefox appears
-Set Program Associations : for Windows Media Player, mpc does not appear in the list
-Set Associations : .mpc is set for Windows Media Player but Add To Windows Media Player List does not appear in Context Menu for mpc files
-Set Program Access And Computer Defaults : you should have choosen Custom. You would have seen Mozilla Firefox under Choose A Default Web Browser
a+, =)
-=Finiderire=-
Configuration :
Windows Vista x64 SP1 Ultimate
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