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COMPLETELY unassociating extensions from default Open With programs
Hello,
On the internet, I have found tutorials on how to unassociate a file extension from a default Open With program. You have to run RegEdit and remove the desired registry keys.
I'm following these steps correctly, but it just does not seem to work.
I have a file extension called ".pkg" (package). It orginally had no default program bound to it. I accidentily gave it WinRAR as default (and the only) Open With program. Now I want it to have no associated program again. (blank icon, without ANY default program to open it with)
When I try to delete the WinRAR registry key in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.pkg\OpenWithList, WinRAR still is the default Open With program and when I click on the file, it opens with WinRAR..
They also tell me to search for HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pkg\OpenWithProgids, but there is no OpenWithProgids in the .pkg folder inside HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.
Could anyone help me with this? .pkg is not the only extension which I want to have blank again. (With blank I actually mean having NO default programs to open it with. Not showing up in Open With, nor the icon itself, nor when simply clicking on it.
When you click on such a "blank" file, it normally says "Cannot open the following file" and then it asks you to either search the right program on the internet or find a default program to open it with. This was the original state of the .pkg file and I'd like to have it back like this, in stead of beign bound to WinRAR.
Thank you for your time.