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The Restore button resets the selected extension to the previous file type
and will only be present if you modified the settings of the selected file
type. The Restore button appears in the place of the Advanced button.

There is no "Click Edit on Open" button in the Advanced dialog.

I believe that he meant...
Highlight Open in the Actions list and then click the Edit button.
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Folder Options | File Types tab

Registered file types:
[[Lists the file name extensions and associated file types that are
currently registered with Windows. When a file type is registered,
information including what program should be used to open files of that type
is also registered.

Extensions are the characters, usually three or four letters such as .doc,
..txt, or .html, that follow the period at the end of a file name. Extensions
are associated with a particular type of file. The file type identifies the
program, such as Word, that is used to open the file.

When you click one of the types in the list, a summary of what program is
used to open the file and what file name extension the type has is displayed
under Details.]]

New button:
[[Click to create a new association between a file name extension and a file
type, or to create and register a new file type with Windows.]]

Delete button:
[[Click to remove the association between the selected extension and file
type. This also deletes the extension from the list, but does not delete the
extension or the file type from the computer.
Removing the association between an extension and file type means files with
that extension are not automatically opened by the program linked to that
file type.

For example, if you double-click a file with a .txt extension in Windows
Explorer, the file opens in Notepad because the .txt extension is associated
with the file type Text Document. If you delete the association between the
..txt extension and Text Document, you are prompted to select a program to
open the file when you double-click the file in Windows Explorer.

To recreate the association, or to create a new association, see the
procedure "To associate a file name extension with a file type" in Help.]]

Change button:
[[Click to change the program that opens files of this type.]]

The Advanced button opens the Edit File Type dialog.

The Restore button resets the selected extension to the previous file type
and will only be present if you modified the settings of the selected file
type. The Restore button appears in the place of the Advanced button.
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Edit File Type dialog

Description box:
[[Specifies a description of this file type, and provides a space for you to
type in a new one. This description appears in folder windows when you
display files in Details view.]]

Change Icon button:
[[Click to change the icon that is associated with this file type.]]

Actions:
[[Lists the commands that have been defined for this file type. These
commands appear on the shortcut menu for all files of this type. To add a
command, click New. To change an existing command, click the command, and
then click Edit. You can define as many commands as you want, and you can
give them any name you want. For example, you could create a file type that
has two commands, Open with Notepad and Open with WordPad. Both of these
commands would appear on the File menu and on the shortcut menu for the
item.]]

New button:
[[Click to add a new command for this file type.]]

Edit button:
[[Click to change the actions of the selected command.]]

Remove button:
[[Removes the selected command.]]

Set Default button:
[[Sets the selected command as the command to be carried out when the file
is invoked.
The default command for the file is shown in bold on the shortcut menu for
the file.]]

Confirm open after download:
[[Specifies that you always want to open files of this type as soon as they
have finished downloading.]]

Always show extension:
[[Specifies that the extension for this file type should be visible in a
folder window.]]

Browse in same window
[[Specifies that you always want files of this type to open in the existing
window instead of opening another window.]]

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:eOKf1G2MHHA.1872@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Steve Wagner <swagner@xxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
Thank-you for the reply.

There is no "Advanced" tab unless I hit "Restore" first. The fields are:
Listbox titled "Registered file types:"
Buttons "New" and "Delete"
Group with buttons "Change" and "Restore"

If I hit "Restore", the "Restore" button is replaced by "Advanced". When I
hit "Advanced", a new dialog with the following controls:
Button and text input "Change Icon..."
Litbox titled "Actions:"
Buttons "New", "Edit...", "Remove", "Set Default"
Check box "Confirm open after download"
Check box "Always show extension"
Check box "Browse in same window" (grayed out)

There is no "Click Edit on Open" button in the Advanced dialog.

Steve




Try :
Control Panel > Folder Options > File types tab
Select DSW from the list and click Advanced
Click Edit on Open then in application box, use :
"Path Of Application" "%1"

The important part is quotes..
Click OK > OK > Close

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