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Solve : How to add own filetypes to Windows 8?? |
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Answer» Hi! To select filetypes is good, but how to add new filetype?Same way you do in Windows 7; with some mild Changes. Win7 (and probably Vista) have almost the same dialog and don't allow you to add files. The purpose of this being that Applications should provide the metadata that tells the system what kind of files they manage, instead of letting the user randomly decide that some file opens with a given program, you choose from a set of programs that are known to be compatible with that file type. Anyway, I digress. If you want to add a new association, you can use Open With. The first dialog asks if you want to look for an App on the App Store. You can choose "More options" and Either find the application you want in the listing or select "Look for another App on this PC", which opens the standard File Dialog and you can choose the program you want. Quote Simple: need trick how to enable 16-bit apps running in 64-bit Win8... (maybe neverendning story)...There is no trick. If you need to run a 16-bit program, you should be running a 16-bit or 32-bit OS. the 64-bit windows kernel architecture cannot fallback from 64-bit protected mode to 16-bit real mode (or even Virtual 8086 mode). Quote Also Win8 features message which appears in some cases of special applications "No able to run in Win8" - this is more important than 16-bit apps...Some applications are, for lack of a better description, programmed by morons who don't know how to check for versions that are equal or greater than the version they were designed for. As an example, some programs will actually check for Windows 7 by seeing that the Major and Minor versions equal 6 and 10 respectively, which means they will complain in Windows 8. At the same time, some of them even grab the OSVersionName field, and state that, the result being that "this program cannot run on Windows 8". Like Vista and 7, though, you are probably encountering the dialog about known compatibility issues. Some programs will refuse to run on Windows Vista and 7 because they have known compatibility issues. MS usually only adds those warnings and dialogs if the program can cause serious data loss or application stability problems.Hi! Change of association by way of Properties of file is always same, not new... Win8 message is for me very big problem... I used special applications which have not description... So, is possible to disable it? Creating new filetypes: OK, I tried Registry Editor... After creating extension and assiociation with NOTEPAD new subkeys are added in same system like in WinXP... My example was TEST extension... Keys: TEST_auto_file |_shell |___Edit |___Open So I tried to add extension description with "My own Test File" I tried to add it to Default value of TEST key... - not succesfull I tried to add DefaultIcon: as value of TEST key... not succesfull as new key DefaultIcon to its Default ... no succesfull Can you help me please again? Many many thanks...Quote from: MIRKOSOFT on October 11, 2012, 12:14:45 PM So I tried to add extension description with "My own Test File" DefaultIcon should be a key (NOT a value), with a (Default) Value of the icon path. Another thing to note is that when you edit file types with the registry you sometimes need to log off and on (or restart explorer) for the changes to take effect.Hi friend! Thank you, this is what I was not sure... ALL IS NOW OK... I restarted explorer and everything is OK! I want to ask only one thing else: Is possible to change default icon of files which are not yet associated or have not extension? I don't want to use applications like TuneUp or other... Many manyyyyyyyyyy thanks!!!! Miro |
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