[Discussion] File properties

[Douglas Clark]

On Tue, 01 May 2007 22:41:15 -0700, Dave Yeo wrote:

>>How do I delete an "open as" action from the properties
>>menu?   I found a bunch of files had "PMView Pro" added as
>>an action, and now, having had to copy a progman.exe file
>>from one system to this one after mine died for whatever
>>reason, a lot of the menus seem to have Windows 16 added as
>>a menu item - instead of PMView Pro.  And I notice that
>>Lucide has Acrobat 4 and 5 as menu items.
>>
>>I know I can just leave them all sitting there but I want
>>them deleted just in case something decides one of them
>>should be the default action.

I believe the reason this is happening is because you have Windows 16 associated with a "type" that 
matches the files.

e.g.   file xyz.pgm   is file type xyz graphics

On the Windows 16 program icon you have it associated with file type xyz graphics.

If you remove the xyz graphics type association from the Windows 16 program then it will not appear 
on the Open As menu for each of the graphics files.

Remember you can also re-order the programs that appear in the Open As pop-up menu in order to 
make a different one the default.

This is all Workplace Shell stuff.
Thanks

Douglas Clark