Windows 7 - Default File Type Associations - Restore

No luck unfortunately : (, there did seem to be a junk entry in [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.ts\OpenWithList] that just said 'ba' which I deleted, but it doesn't seem to have fixed the problem. It seems bizarre to me how the ts can have almost exact same keys as the tts, yet tts gives thumbnails and ts doesn't.

I'm afraid that I do not know what else to suggest since Windows Media Player is the default player for TS files.

I know this is an old thread Brink, but have you thought about creating a "Restore All" that combines all the above in one zip file that extracts to a single .reg file?

If not that, how about a single .zip file that contains the individual .reg files. Then a single download would have all of them available for future use. There are currently 70 individual zip file downloads (well 69 and 1 reg file). I'm just thinking how nice it would be to have all of them in a single place on my hard drive for future use.

Hello Rich,

Wow, I didn't even realize that there was that many file extension downloads already.

I tried having a ZIP with all of the REG file downloads in one, but it exceeded the max upload size for ZIP files and was alot harder to keep updated than with the individual downloads. I'll look into again tonight to see what I may be able to do though.

A couple of ideas.

Firstly, you could have a series of zipped files arranged in alphabetical order covering A-D, E-J, K-O, P-T, and U-Z. In addition, you could also have some zipped files pertaining to the same program, e.g. paint and media player related extensions. It's still a good idea, though, to have them all separate as well.

I dont know what i did but i downloaded something and i click on it, after awhile all the icons i had changed to internet explorer icon i can't open any of the icons and when i click on it ask me to download an lnk. type of file and when i click on other it open upp internet explorer for a short while then it close back again n ask if i wan to download the lnk. file again. Can any1 help me with this problem?

Hello Donavan, and welcome to Seven Forums.

What file extension is this for? For example all shortcuts, lnk (LNK) file extentions.

If you are not sure, then you can also do a system restore, at boot if needed, using a restore point dated before this happened.

Hope this helps for now,
Shawn

Brink, I had forgotten about the file size restriction, rats. As for maintaining the zip file, a small batch file would do that for you. I like Dwarfs idea though. 5 zip files that will hopefully fall well under the max size restriction.

If you're busy I can take a whack at it. I can download all the zip + the zip .reg and put together a batch file to regen the 5 master zip files, then post the batch file here or send it to you via PM.

Hi Rich,

Sure that would be great. You can go ahead and post the bat files here when ready, and I'll integrate it into the tutorial as a separate option.

Okay, here it is. 7 files total, 1 batch file and 5 file_list files and extension list from 1st post in this thread.

GenDefaultAssociations.zip

7-Zip [64] 4.65 Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov 2009-02-03

Listing archive: GenDefaultAssociations.zip


Date Time Attr Size Compressed Name
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2010-09-13 17:31:44 ....A 23119 21994 Default_File_Associations_A-D.zip
2010-09-13 17:31:44 ....A 20814 19562 Default_File_Associations_E-J.zip
2010-09-13 17:31:44 ....A 24024 22883 Default_File_Associations_K-O.zip
2010-09-13 17:31:44 ....A 16095 15317 Default_File_Associations_P-T.zip
2010-09-13 17:31:44 ....A 9903 9408 Default_File_Associations_U-Z.zip
2010-09-13 17:18:46 ....A 1607 537 GenDefaultAssociations.bat
2010-09-13 17:31:28 ....A 9835 3257 __Extensions.txt
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