Each file in your Windows operating system has an extension in its filename, eg. .txt, .doc, etc. These extensions are used to identify the program, with which, windows can open this file. You can set ...

File Association Fixer for Windows 8, Windows 7 & Windows Vista will let you repair and fix file associations and extensions in a single click. UPDATE: File Association Fixer v2 supports Windows 10, ...

Microsoft uses file associations to set default programs for opening different file types on all its operating systems. As a result, when you open a file, be it text, image, or document, on your ...

Windows: Whether Windows isn't sure how to open a specific file, or you'd rather just use a different program than the default, you probably have to deal with Windows' Open With menu from time to time ...

I should have put this in my book I just learned two Windows command line utilities that I never knew existed: assoc and ftype. Both will display or modify the file association list, and are ...

When you double-click a file on your computer, Windows may launch an application to run or display the file. Windows knows how to do this because it maintains a list of known file types and the names ...

When you open files that have a particular file extension, Windows will look at its configuration to determine what the default program should be in order to work with these files. The default program ...

I moved my Applications folder to another drive, then moved it back to my boot drive. Somewhere in the shuffle, the file type association of the Desktop (~/Desktop) got reassigned to Terminal (weird, ...

I recently changed the file association for a subset of my video collection. Now, I've always assumed that that sort change registered itself on the OS level and that the file itself goes untouched.