Re: More about "Open with", seems like a flaw to me

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On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:44:44 -0500, VanguardLH <V@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

mm wrote:

More about "Open with", seems like a flaw to me

More? You just started a NEW thread so there is nothing *more*.
Everything you state in your starter post here is NEW.

More because I posted about this in another thread earlier, called
"Open with". It was only June 20th, at 2:31PM EDT, just a couple days
earlier, but it's a busy group and I had to scroll up quite a way to
findnow.

If I had posted under the same name, for (some of?) those who still
had any part of the old thread in their reader, it would have sorted
with the first thread and, because of the earlier date, not been seen
by those who weren't looking several pages up in their list of
threads.

So, after some help here, and after installing Power Desk 5, which may
have improved Power Desk 6,

How does an earlier version "improve" a later version?

It could be that a feature of the installation of 5 installed
something that was then able to be used by 6, even though 6 was
installed first. Perhaps some feature of the install routine had to
be bypassed, or was accidentally, in 6, but wasn't in 5.

Now I think, but I'm not sure, that it didn't actually actually make a
difference. But it's certainly possible.

Windows Explorer
also will not provide Open With as a right-mouse-key option for a file
that has no extension!

Isn't Open With even *more* needed when there is no extension. If
there is no extension, Windows has NO way to tell what program is
needed.

More initiative is required. Just what DOES happen when you right-click
on a file with no extension and select Open from the context menu?
Tada! You get a browser dialog to select a program. It lists some
recently used programs but also lets you browse to a program. How is
that different than the Open With dialog?

It's not. I notice that myself in my second reply to Erwin, but I
might not have so thanks for pointing it out.
.

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