Guest Uncle Grumpy Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 A month or so ago, I mentioned that I was having a problem with the right-click "open with" menu only listing 3 items and no more - regardless of the type of file I was trying to open - just white space where the additional choices should have been listed. No fix could be found, tho' a couple of MVPs tried valiantly to help. Well, quite by accident I found the fix. I recently went into the registry and deleted all the crap Winzip and a host of other programs had added to that menu - VOILA!!! That menu now works as it should.
Guest Curt Christianson Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 Re: "open with" menu problem - THE CURE Good for you Grumpy. You know that's one you'll never forget. Come to think of it, I had that same problem a few years ago--and I just lived with it. <g> -- HTH, Curt Windows Support Center http://www.aumha.org Practically Nerded,... http://dundats.mvps.org/Index.htm "Uncle Grumpy" <unclegrumpy@ameritech.net> wrote in message news:jkfq93hus6vv3bibho8hi87h5rhb7gl0qg@4ax.com... |A month or so ago, I mentioned that I was having a problem with the | right-click "open with" menu only listing 3 items and no more - | regardless of the type of file I was trying to open - just white space | where the additional choices should have been listed. No fix could be | found, tho' a couple of MVPs tried valiantly to help. | | Well, quite by accident I found the fix. | | I recently went into the registry and deleted all the crap Winzip and | a host of other programs had added to that menu - VOILA!!! | | That menu now works as it should.
Guest Uncle Curt Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 Re: "open with" menu problem - THE CURE Uncle, It's not that difficult to go into the registry and find the correct keys to delete Nice to know you actually managed to help someone hahaha "Curt Christianson" wrote: > Good for you Grumpy. You know that's one you'll never forget. Come to > think of it, I had that same problem a few years ago--and I just lived with > it. <g> > > -- > HTH, > Curt > > Windows Support Center > http://www.aumha.org > Practically Nerded,... > http://dundats.mvps.org/Index.htm > > "Uncle Grumpy" <unclegrumpy@ameritech.net> wrote in message > news:jkfq93hus6vv3bibho8hi87h5rhb7gl0qg@4ax.com... > |A month or so ago, I mentioned that I was having a problem with the > | right-click "open with" menu only listing 3 items and no more - > | regardless of the type of file I was trying to open - just white space > | where the additional choices should have been listed. No fix could be > | found, tho' a couple of MVPs tried valiantly to help. > | > | Well, quite by accident I found the fix. > | > | I recently went into the registry and deleted all the crap Winzip and > | a host of other programs had added to that menu - VOILA!!! > | > | That menu now works as it should. > > >
Guest Uncle Grumpy Posted July 18, 2007 Posted July 18, 2007 Re: "open with" menu problem - THE CURE Uncle Curt <Uncle Curt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >Uncle, > >It's not that difficult to go into the registry and find the correct keys to >delete Been there, done that, know that. But I was merely cleaning up the menu and luckily that resulted in my "problem" being fixed as well.
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