Default Open and Edit?

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:04:51 -0500, "Bob" <nowhere.DeleteThis@nowhere.net> wrote:

>Right click>Open with>Choose Default Program is one way to do it.

This changes the default Open, not the default Edit.

"Nigel Molesworth" <reply DeleteThis @thegroup.email.invalid> wrote in message

> This changes the default Open, not the default Edit.

Hmm, it does for me.

In any event, if you choose PhotoShop as the default "open with" you then
can edit the jpg, right? I mean, even if you could choose right click Edit,
it would then open a program to use for editing. So for all practical
purposes it doesn't make any difference if you chose "open with" or "edit".
Maybe I'm not understanding you.

What do you get when you Right click and choose Edit?




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> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:04:51 -0500, "Bob" <nowhere DeleteThis @nowhere.net> wrote:
>
>>Right click>Open with>Choose Default Program is one way to do it.
>
> This changes the default Open, not the default Edit.
>

"Bob" <nowhere.RemoveThis@nowhere.net> wrote:

> "Nigel Molesworth" <reply.RemoveThis@thegroup.email.invalid> wrote in message
>
>> This changes the default Open, not the default Edit.

> Hmm, it does for me.

Yes, but it changes both the default Open and the default Edit to the
same program.

> In any event, if you choose PhotoShop as the default "open with"
> you then can edit the jpg, right? I mean, even if you could choose
> right click Edit, it would then open a program to use for editing.
> So for all practical purposes it doesn't make any difference if
> you chose "open with" or "edit". Maybe I'm not understanding you.
>
> What do you get when you Right click and choose Edit?

I have Windows Photo Gallery set as the default program to open JPEGs.
When I select a JPEG and right-click Edit, Photo Gallery also opens.
Unlike XP's, Vista's dialog for setting file type associations doesn't
have an option for what to do when you click Edit; it defaults to the
same thing as when you click Open. If I understand correctly, the OP
(and I) would like to change that, so that Open starts one program
(e.g. Photo Gallery) and Edit starts another (e.g. Photoshop). From
what I've Googled, the only way to do this in Vista is by manually
editing the registry.

As a workaround (which the OP probably already knows about) you can
right-click the file and select Open With, then choose your editor from
the list, but *not* set it as the default. Not as convenient as just
clicking Edit, but it works.

--
Ray
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Nigel

Here is how to do this using the registry editor.

The first thing you need to do is determine the path to the Photoshop
executable (EXE) file. On my system it is "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop
CS2\Photoshop.exe".

Go to Start and type regedit.exe in the Search Box. In the results, right
click regedit.exe and select the "Run As Administrator" option.

In the registry editor, navigate to the following Key.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\jpegfile

*Important*
*Select the "jpegfile" key. Go to File/Export, name the file jpeg
backup.reg and save it to your Desktop. *This will be your backup file
that you can use to restore the key if something goes wrong.

Expand the jpegfile key, expand the Shell Key, expand the Edit Key.

Under the Edit Key, click Command.

In the right side pane, double click the "Default" value.

In the Edit String dialog box, change the path to the location of the
Photoshop executable and add a space and the "%1" syntax. It should
similar to this.

"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop CS2\Photoshop.exe" "%1"

(Make sure that you include all of the "quotes" and spaces)

Press the F5 key and exit regedit.

You should now be able to right click a .jpg or .jpeg file and select Edit
to open the file in Photoshop.

If something goes wrong, go to the Desktop, right click the "jpeg
backup.reg" file and select the Merge option to reset the jpeg key in the
registry.

--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"Nigel Molesworth" <reply.TakeThisOut@thegroup.email.invalid> wrote in message
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> In Windows XP, you could manually edit the default programs to Open and
> Edit
> a file, in this case for JPG files.
>
> Although I have found how to change the default Open in "Set
> Associations",
> I can't see how to change the default Edit to launch PhotoShop.
>

On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:23:21 -0500, "Bob" <nowhere DeleteThis @nowhere.net> wrote:

>if you choose PhotoShop as the default "open with" you then
>can edit the jpg, right?

But I don't want to Open the files in Photoshop.

>I mean, even if you could choose right click Edit,
>it would then open a program to use for editing.

This is when Photoshop should launch, not on the default Open.

What do you get when you Right click and choose Edit?

"Nigel Molesworth" <reply.DeleteThis@thegroup.email.invalid> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:23:21 -0500, "Bob" <nowhere.DeleteThis@nowhere.net> wrote:
>
>>if you choose PhotoShop as the default "open with" you then
>>can edit the jpg, right?
>
> But I don't want to Open the files in Photoshop.
>
>>I mean, even if you could choose right click Edit,
>>it would then open a program to use for editing.
>
> This is when Photoshop should launch, not on the default Open.
>