Re: .jpg .gif .bmp file associations gone, upgrade from Office XP
From: Bob Buckland ?:-\) ("Bob)
Date: 02/14/05
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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 05:43:35 -0800
Hi F.,
Did you get the same result if you do a test machine
with a manual install?
Graphics programs have a reputation for being 'grabby'
(taking over the associations on install).
There isn't a built in provision in the Custom Installation
Wizard screens for Office 2003 if the 'open with'
settings aren't migrating that I recall. There also
wasn't one for MS Office PhotoEditor. Photo Editor
tended to takeover the associations, where MS Office Picture Manager
tends to leave them off by default.
As you mentioned in your original post you can add the
registry entries, and you could probably use the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts
list and set the MRU value to OIS (the Office Picture Manager)
or to Photoshop as the first entry for each file type
and use either different MST files or different OPS files
based on the user having or not having Photoshop, or
save the previous reg key and replace the entries in
the 'openwithlist' (edit replace in the reg file)
that read 'photoed.exe' with 'ois.exe' although
you may also have to update the HKEY_Classes_Root
associations reg entries, or you may want to consider
having a .reg key that Photoshop folks can use to
'reset' their graphics associations after the install.
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<<"fbartrom" <fbartrom@nospam.postalias> wrote in message news:5E6491FE-2928-48E6-968D-C9578A5C1CFD@microsoft.com...
Your understanding is not correct. After the upgrade, .jpg .gif .bmp file
associations gone. Since Photo Editor from Office XP is being upgraded to
Picture Manager from Office 2003, these associations should automatically be
re-associated to Picture Manager. I am deploying to over 600 users and do
not want to manually create the associations for every user.
How do you configure the upgrade install to correctly and automatically move
the file association of .jpg, .gif and .bmp from Photo Editor to Microsoft
Office Picture Manager.>>
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