"David" <David@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A24F927A-D932-46D5-A39E-37EB98949173@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> Hello,
>
> I have been looking for some time in Vista, on how to associate multiple
> programs to one file type. For example: with JPEG images (Extension .jpg)
> in
> XP you could edit the .jpg extension and add different options when you
> right
> click, say Edit, Open, Preview, Print, etc. Also you could set one of
> these
> as the Default when you double click the file. In XP you could go the one
> step further and use different programs for each of those options. For
> example, if you clicked open, you could have that set to MS Paint, if you
> click Preview, it would open Windows Picture Viewer, Edit would open
> Photoshop etc.
>
> It seems in Vista when you go to .jpg in "Associate a file type or
> protocol
> with a program" listed under "Default Programs" in the Start menu, its
> been
> simplified to just allowing one single program to be chosen as the
> default.
> My question is "Does the ability that XP had still exist in Vista," maybe
> as
> advanced options?
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