File > Open With/Associate...

[SkyFrontier]

Can anyone think of a way to change system files' associations directly from XYplorer?
Currently we can PFA. But I'd like to have an accessible option built into XY itself, instead of hang around with another FM.
Thanks!

[SkyFrontier]

Optionally I could set PFA to run this command on selected files:

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|"Open With..."\;*>::run "RunDLL32.EXE SHELL32.DLL,OpenAs_RunDLL"

...but I am only getting an "access denied" after selecting the program I want to open with, plus not having the option to "always open with selected program".
Any ideas, please...?

[SkyFrontier]

Wow.
I'm amazed. Again.
XY parsed <curitem> info to the OS.
So the working PFA entry must be set as:

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|"Open With/Associate..."\;*>::run "RunDLL32.EXE SHELL32.DLL,OpenAs_RunDLL <curitem>"

EDIT: Rephrased from "Open With..." to "Open With/Associate...".

[grindax]

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[SkyFrontier]

Grindax said:

Awesome! I vote for this to be included by default in XYplorer!

Thanks, Grindax! I always missed that in XY, and each and every time called PowerDesk for help. I'm decided to give PDesk definitive retirement, but still have to rely on some of its features. Now I just have to integrate (again!) its Finder to replace XY's F3 and have it default as I *always* need its impressive "Search Inside Contents" (unrivaled by any other tool, so far, and I've tested tons of them to get a little bit more control over the output's displaying - previously discussed here) and... wait for dual tree.
Gotta keep some faith...

[grindax]

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[admin]

I'm finding it very useful to now be able to set system-level file associations from within XYplorer. However, I notice that the icons for the newly associated programs only apply to the new file types after quitting and restarting XYplorer.

Is there any way to get the icon associations to take effect without a restart?

I never found the way. There should be one but it's well hidden.

[Jibz]

A quick google suggests calling SHChangeNotify with SHCNE_ASSOCCHANGED .. not tested though .

[admin]

A quick google suggests calling SHChangeNotify with SHCNE_ASSOCCHANGED .. not tested though .

I know. But the problem is not the notification but the flushing of the system image list. I've read everything about it but to no avail.

[SkyFrontier]

Stuff like that is underestimated until we have them at hand and see the difference caused by small usability/practical improvements. All I think about, even the smallest and weirdest possibility (some of them I currently can't live without), I post here because I know how much they help in daily tasks, repeated each and every day throughout years. Oh, If I had some of the recent improvements available since years ago... Well. Now I have!
Now I just have to spread the word.

[nas8e9]

Stuff like that is underestimated until we have them at hand and see the difference caused by small usability/practical improvements. All I think about, even the smallest and weirdest possibility (some of them I currently can't live without), I post here because I know how much they help in daily tasks, repeated each and every day throughout years. Oh, If I had some of the recent improvements available since years ago... Well. Now I have!
Now I just have to spread the word.

Also OT, but there's a "Thank you"-thread located here. It helps keep bug and wish threads a bit cleaner.

[grindax]

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[admin]

I've read everything about it but to no avail.

Since the new icons are seen after doing a restart, doesn't that mean that one of the actions on the finite list of things that XYplorer does to initialize itself is the answer?

Windows does it automatically for a new process.