Request - Default Programs Editor

[SkyFrontier]

It may sound silly, but I've spent 8 hours around this and came up with nothing.

The idea: a simple interface thru which a list of extensions could be parsed and a default program defined for them.

The problem: for instance I see lists like
http://superuser.com/questions/664543/c ... t-programs
but there are information on not every program being able to register itself into modern Windows'es - and that being an issue on internal design, ie, no workaround would work.

The ridiculous: even trying to "set this program as default", one file type at a time, fails for a particular app (irfanview portable).

I've came across few programs which could deal with the issue, but I'm not satisfied with any. One was caught trying to phone home.

Thanks in advance.

[Stef123]

I am also interested in a solution. It were nice to operate my private home machine just like a regular user, but with the very same portable programs I use at work, calling them as if they were installed. This was easy with earlier Windows versions, but Win7 and later don't allow the assignment of exe-files that are not installed.

I've came across few programs which could deal with the issue, but I'm not satisfied with any.

What exactly are you after? Registering portable apps with the system? Or getting XY's POM/PFA feature outside of XY?
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/inde ... #msg260989

[SkyFrontier]

What exactly are you after? Registering portable apps with the system? Or getting XY's POM/PFA feature outside of XY?
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/inde ... #msg260989

Both.
-thanks for the DC's link, that one escaped my g-searching.

[highend]

Windows 8+ / Server 2012+ require a hash to set a program as default.

It's possible in corporate environments (active directory - gpos) by (I call that a hack):
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mrmlcgn/arch ... tocol.aspx

In a normal user environment...
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/librar ... 85%29.aspx

Note We recommend you call the Set associations for a program by using IApplicationAssociationRegistrationUI::LaunchAdvancedAssociationUI.

So you'd need to call that api and then automate that window...