How to add a program to the 'Open With' dialogue?

Registering programs with the "Open With" dialog

Just used the Program and it worked great

What usually works for me is to actually right click a file type you want the app (in this case, Photoshop) to be able to open from that "open with" menu and then from the "Open with" menu, select "choose default program" and browse for the .exe of the application you want to have on the menu (i.e., Photoshop) that is not currently there and select it. But make sure to uncheck the box to make this the default application for opening that type of file. After that, that program (in this case Photoshop) should always appear in the list when you use open with on a file of the type you just used for the above procedure.

I hope that explanation is understandable. I did manage to add photoshop and several other apps to the list that way.

Ok now this is odd...I followed what you said above and we started the machine to see if my Open With entries disapperred...

They didn't...did you run the program as an Adminstrator?

Well glad it helped. Thanks for the rep.

Imageman said:

harpua - WOWWIE ZOWWIE, now that worked. Thanks for the superb solution - IM

I am glad one of us got it working!

Following my post above (if you didn't read it...), that program I had you install worked for me on 7HP x64...so I am not sure why it didn't work for you

villagerose said:

There are a multitude of .exe files and I want to delete a bunch of them. How do I do that?

I sugget you start a new thread of your own. I am afraid you will not get a lot of attention on this thread with a completely different subject. You may also want to describe you problem in a bit more detail. From what you posted it is impossible to tell what your problem is.