{"id":17,"date":"2008-07-11T20:14:23","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T01:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2008-09-16T18:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T23:31:00","slug":"default-programs-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/default-programs-editor","title":{"rendered":"Default Programs Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an advanced Windows file association utility<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/default_programs_editor-cool_screenshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18\" title=\"Screenshot of Default Programs Editor\" src=\"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/default_programs_editor-cool_screenshot-300x115.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of Default Programs Editor\" width=\"300\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/default_programs_editor-cool_screenshot-300x115.jpg 300w, https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/default_programs_editor-cool_screenshot.jpg 926w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is some sweet stuff you can do with it:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Manually add extension information<\/li>\n<li>Change a file type&#8217;s description<\/li>\n<li>Change a file type&#8217;s icon<\/li>\n<li>Change an extension&#8217;s associated file type<\/li>\n<li>Add\/Edit\/Delete an extension&#8217;s default association<\/li>\n<li>Add\/Edit\/Delete other entries on the file&#8217;s context menu<\/li>\n<li>Preserve verb precedence hierarchy<\/li>\n<li>View shell extension entries on the context menu<\/li>\n<li>Remove &#8216;Default Programs&#8217; association that Windows likes to make annoying to change<\/li>\n<li>Add\/Edit\/Delete your own autoplay handlers<\/li>\n<li>Change which autoplay options are available for users<\/li>\n<li>Disable that &#8220;Search web for unknown extension&#8221; dialog<\/li>\n<li>Single .exe utility, no installation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>On top of all that, here are some bonus features:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make changes direct to the registry, or export them as .reg files for easy distribution<\/li>\n<li>Designed for Vista, with UAC support, so you can painlessly run as a standard user<\/li>\n<li>Works with XP too (a few features disabled, just use TweakUI)<\/li>\n<li>Make changes to your user account, or the machine default, or both<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Documentation is admittedly sparse right now, but here are some how-to&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a title=\"Set Media Player Classic to Autoplay DVDs\" href=\"default-programs-editor-example-usage-setting-media-player-classic-to-autoplay-dvds\" target=\"_blank\">Set Media Player Classic to Autoplay DVDs<\/a><\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"Change the Edit command on a batch file context menu\" href=\"default-programs-editor-example-use-changing-the-edit-context-command-for-batch-files\">Change the &#8220;Edit&#8221; command on a batch file context menu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Feel free to email me with any suggestions or questions.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Download\" href=\"http:\/\/factormystic.net\/utils\/defaultprogramseditor\/\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an advanced Windows file association utility Here is some sweet stuff you can do with it: Manually add extension information Change a file type&#8217;s description Change a file type&#8217;s icon Change an extension&#8217;s associated file type Add\/Edit\/Delete an extension&#8217;s default association Add\/Edit\/Delete other entries on the file&#8217;s context menu Preserve verb precedence hierarchy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-default-programs-editor","category-release","category-windows-tweaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}