List of associated programs for a file type

[jpaulm]

On XP there is a facility to add programs to a file type - you can add more than one program, and each one has a name (which appears in the pulldown list), and a program location, which can have options added to it, e.g. an html file could have a browse function, and an edit function (I want to use SeaMonkey with a -compose option, assuming I can do this). I don't want to have to pick one program as the default unless the other one is easily accessible. I know it's silly, but I can't find this in Win7 for the life of me! Help would be appreciated - I'm sure Win7 wouldn't kill a very useful XP facility... would they?!

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Index page • mozillaZine Forums

The 3rd section talks about SeaMonkey and how to fix bugs.
Post back if this helps.

 

[paul1149]

It seems to me that MS did decide that was too much responsibility for us to handle. IAC, check out NirSoft's excellent, free FileTypeMan.

 

[Ztruker]

The primary SeaMonkey (my browser as well) support forum is here: SeaMonkey Support

 

[jpaulm]

Thanks to all of you - I will try FileTypeMan, and look up the SeaMonkey support...

 

[jpaulm]

Tried FileTypeMan - it's great - thanks, @paul1149!

However... it looks like I can't attach a -xxx option on the SeaMonkey .exe call the way we could with Netscape - does anyone know of any other way to get straight into SeaMonkey Composer, without having to go through the directories again to find the file that I already have?!

 

[Ztruker]

A Google search for open seamonkey with composer gave the correct syntax: seamonkey -editor

You can also add "filename.html" if you want to open directly to a specific file.

 

[jpaulm]

Fantastic, @Ztruker - works like a charm! Guess I gave up too quickly! Thanks a million!

Paul

 

[Ztruker]

You're welcome.