WAssociate 2.0

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Introduction

WAssociate is FreeWare written for Windows 95 and NT.
WAssociate is a shortcut for clicking View - Options - File types in Windows Explorer, or taking the same walk using registry editors like RegEdit. This is where WAssociate is about. Being in control when double or right clicking an icon in Explorer or any Windows 95 or NT file dialog. Quickly editing the default open command that gets executed when you double click an icon, editing the alternate mouse button menus, setting of icons, descriptions, and ... more.

What you need to know

To use WAssociate effectively, you need to have, or develop, a basic understanding of how Windows assigns properties to file extensions. Use WAssociate carefully and backup your Windows registry often.

Note for NT users

NT users must have the rights to edit the registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT to use WAssociate. I did NOT have the time to test WAssociate on accounts with limited rights. You can find out whether you have enough rights by starting RegEdit and to access the keys found beneath HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. If you are not allowed to access them don't install WAssociate or ask your administrator for more rights.

Download and installation

To install WAssociate simply download WAssociate.zip (217K) and extract the zip file to a folder of your choice. The current version of WAssociate in this zip is 2.0.1.1. Included in the zip you'll find all pages on this site related to WAssociate.

To make WAssociate accessible from the 'Send to' menu of Explorer, you can place a shortcut to WAssociate.exe in your SendTo folder. You can find a description of the SendTo folder in Windows Help (Start - Help - Index topic SendTo).

Windows and file name extensions
Using WAssociate
Example
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