"foobar2000 Shell Associations Updater.exe" doesn't win
Reply #2 – 2008-10-21 20:17:36
When I wrote "I thought I use this 'foobar2000 Shell Associations Updater' tool to have my Assocs properly" I meant I did that from within fb2k. I used the huge "Set file associations" button from the preferences page. The current state is: No matter if I start fb2k with "Start as administrator" or not, the checkboxes besides the file types are checked and greyed out, i.e. not changeable. EDIT: I couldn't resist and restored the file associations with a .reg, which basically does the following for any supported audio filetype. Least I can say, it works (hopefully it's enough, it was alright for XP) and only changes associations for the current user. As a side note: Also XP supported user independent file associations, but most apps didn't make use of this, and almost no application, Windows itself included, handled this transparent.[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\foobar2000.M4A] @="MP4" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\foobar2000.M4A\DefaultIcon] @="M:\\Musik\\foobar2000\\icons\\M4A.ico" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\foobar2000.M4A\shell] @="open" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\foobar2000.M4A\shell\enqueue] @="Enqueue in foobar2000" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\foobar2000.M4A\shell\enqueue\command] @="\"M:\\Musik\\foobar2000\\foobar2000.exe\" /add \"%1\"" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\foobar2000.M4A\shell\open] @="Play in foobar2000" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\foobar2000.M4A\shell\open\command] @="\"M:\\Musik\\foobar2000\\foobar2000.exe\" \"%1\""