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Good answer to get this hidden dialog in Win7. But it is only useful for changing the associated application, not for removing it. And then I didn't know how to remove this association to get the option to just run the. For this special case Christothes' answer helped me. Changes are not taking place and still the older program remains as default even I commanded it to change to the newer one.
Peter Mortensen Nice trick. I'll have to try it. Like that :- Pretty straightforward too. Still, having an option to turn that stupid checkbox OFF by default would be even better :- — Christian Stieber. This does not seem to work on Windows 7 I tried on Windows 7 Enterprise bit. When the fake EXE file is removed, it reverts to the previous association. Are there some requirements for this to work?
Service Pack? Windows edition home, professional, etc. User privileges? Safe brute-force method None of the other answers' methods worked on their own for me when trying to delete the file association for something like. This combined method worked Windows 10 : Create a new empty file called something like foo. Delete foo. Double click the file again and dismiss the Open with box this might not be necessary.
Gaff Molly Molly Nice, but not free. Molly The link is dead — Simon. My Solutions: Use this method of this question Mostafa Mostafa 4 4 bronze badges. Mark Lakata Mark Lakata 6, 2 2 gold badges 17 17 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. This seems very dangerous; especially the part about deleting all registry entries that refer to the application.
I wrote the application, so I am less worried about it being dangerous. The issue was that I wanted to relocate the application to a different folder, but all efforts of trying to reassign it through the provided tools in the Control Panel failed.
Fine for you. My point is that your answer might be dangerous for Christothes or anybody else who has the same question. L Thirumalesh. The Overflow Blog. Does ES6 make JavaScript frameworks obsolete? Windows, macOS and other platforms match certain file extensions to default programs. Changing file associations in Windows 10 is pretty easy to do, and there are a couple of ways in which you can do it.
Ben Stockton is a freelance technology writer based in the United Kingdom. In a past life, Ben was a college lecturer in the UK, training teens and adults. Since leaving the classroom, Ben has taken his teaching experience and applied it to writing tech how-to guides and tutorials, specialising in Linux, Windows, and Android.
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