Which is better English in the tooltip?
Opened with: Notepad
Opens with: Notepad
opened or opens?
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Re: opened or opens?
I'm no English major, but I'd say Opens, Opened sounds like it is past tense.
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Re: opened or opens?
tooltip tells current status is "open with notepad"
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Re: opened or opens?
Both those options sound strange, "open in" or "open with" is what I'd go with.
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Re: opened or opens?
Definitely not "opened..." As jupe said, "opened" is past tense.
I checked with myboss, errr ... my wife who is a copy editor, and she declared "opens in..." or "opens with..." to be correct.
I checked with my
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Re: opened or opens?
The "with" is used all over Windows, so I will stick with "opens with". 
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