File Association Fixes for Windows Vista
Here you go hope these fixes will be useful for all windows Vista users : D
Default Vista File Extension Types:
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Default Vista File Extension Types:
aspx - A file with the ASPX file extension is an ASP.NET Source file.Note:You will need to be logged on to an administrator account to apply these. You should create a restore point or backup your important data before applying the downloaded fixes. This way you can do a System Restore to go back to before you applied it if needed.If your EXE file associations are corrupted, it can be difficult to open REGEDIT, or to even import REG files. To work around this, press CTRL-ALT-DEL and open Task Manager. Once there, click File, then hold down the CTRL key and click New Task (Run). This will open a Command Prompt window. Enter REGEDIT.EXE and press Enter.
AudioCD - Audio CD protocol associations.
avi - Audio Video Interleave files. The default program is Windows Media Player.
bat - Batch files.
bmp - Bitmap image files. The default program is Windows Photo Gallery.
cab - Cabinet files.
chm - Microsoft compiled HTML help files.
cmd - Windows command script files.
com - MS-DOS application files.
contact - Contact file used in Windows Mail. The default program is Windows Contacts.
css - Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) file used to format the contents of a Web page; contains customized, global properties for how to display HTML elements; can define the size, color, font, line spacing, indentation, borders, and location of HTML elements.
cur - Windows File Cursor animation files used for the Microsoft Windows mouse pointer image.
dat - Generic data file created by a specific application; typically accessed only by the application that created the file; may contain data in text or binary format; text-based DAT files can be viewed in a text editor.
Directory - Directory protocol associations
dll - A Dynamic Link Library (dll) file is a support file used by one or more programs.
drive - Drive protocol associations.
exe - Executable application files.
folder - Folder protocol associations.
gif - GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) image files. The default program is Internet Explorer.
hlp - Help File
htm - HTML (Hypertext Mark-up Language) document files. The default program is Internet Explorer.
html - HTML (Hypertext Mark-up Language) document files. The default program is Internet Explorer.
ico - Icon files. The default program is Windows Photo Gallery.
inf - Setup information files. The default program is Notepad.
jpe - JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) image files. The default program is Windows Photo Gallery.
jpeg - JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) image files. The default program is Windows Photo Gallery.
jpg - JPG (Joint Photographic Group) image files. The default program is Windows Photo Gallery.
js - Java Script files. The default program is Microsoft Windows Based Script Host (C:\Windows\System32\wscript.exe).
lnk - Shortcut link (LNK) files.
mp3 - MP3 sound format file. The default program is Windows Media Player.
mpa - MPEG audio file. The default program is Windows Media Player.
mpe - MPEG movie file. The default program is Windows Media Player.
mpeg - MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) video file. The default program is Windows Media Player.
mpg - MPEG video file. The default program is Windows Media Player.
msc - Mirosoft Common Console document files.
msi - Microsoft Windows Installer installation package file.
pdf - Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created by Adobe Systems. By default, Vista does not support reading this file type. Using this to restore the default PDF association in Vista will remove all associations for the pdf file extension. You will need to install a 3rd party program like Adobe Reader to be able to open and read pdf files in Vista.
pif - Short for Program InFormation file, a type of file that holds information about how Windows should run a non-Windows application.
png - Portable Network Graphics (PNG) is a bitmap compression method for image files. PNG supports 16.7 million colors, it is lossless and also supports index color, grayscale, true color, transparency, and is streamable. It is thus the best compression method (better than GIF or JPEG) for use on the web
reg - Registry files.
NOTE: You may need to the default program as Registry Editor (C:\Windows\regedit.exe), or enable regedit before you will be able to use this REG file.
rtf - Rich Text document files. The default program is WordPad.
scr - Screen Saver files.
tif - Tagged Image files Format. The default program is Windows Photo Gallery.
tiff - Tagged Image files Format. The default program is Windows Photo Gallery.
txt - Text document files. The default program is Notepad.
vbs - Visual Basic Script files. The default program is Microsoft Windows Based Script Host (C:\Windows\System32\wscript.exe).
wav - Wave audio file.
wma - Windows Media Audio files. The default program is Windows Media Player.
wmv - Windows Media Audio/Video file. The default program is Windows Media Player.
wsf - Windows Script Files. The default program is Microsoft Windows Based Script Host (C:\Windows\System32\wscript.exe).
xml - Excel Macro files. The default program is Internet Explorer.
xps - XML Paper Specification document files. The default program is XPS Viewer (C:\Windows\System32\XPSViewer\XPSViewer.exe).
xsl - A eXtensible Stylesheet Language file that defines the style of text, tables, and other objects within a XML document; similar to a .CSS file used by .HTML documents. The default program is Internet Explorer.
zip - ZIP file extensions is a archival and data compression format used to compress one or more files to reduce the size of the file. The default program is Compressed Folders.
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