Re: changing file associations

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Howdie!

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Every month I rollout the Microsoft updates via WSUS. When I do this, it resets the file associations for my TIF files to what I assume is the Microsoft default (windows Picture Viewer). Currently we have a resource that goes arount to every PC and manually resets the association. Is there a way to 1. prevent this reset from happening or 2. configure something in Group Policy to change the association back to MODI?

Does that ADM template help you guys?

CLASS USER
CATEGORY !!categoryName
POLICY !!policyName
KEYNAME “Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.ext”
PART !!partText TEXT
END PART
PART “Application:” DROPDOWNLIST
VALUENAME “Application”
ITEMLIST
NAME !!firstApp VALUE “myApp_1.exe”
NAME !!secondApp VALUE “myApp_2.exe”
NAME !!thirdApp VALUE “anotherapp.exe”
END ITEMLIST
END PART
END POLICY

END CATEGORY

[strings]
categoryName = Windows Explorer Customization
policyName = Open files with .ext extension with the following program
partText = You can specify the app here
firstApp = First App
secondApp = Second App
thirdApp = Third App

cheers,

Florian
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