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What would be the Windows XP equivalent of deleting the key User Choice
in the Windows 7/Vista registry (to restore the default program to be used to open a particular file extension)?
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What would be the Windows XP equivalent of deleting the key User Choice
in the Windows 7/Vista registry (to restore the default program to be used to open a particular file extension)?
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Never mind — I figured it out. In case anyone else needs this answer here is what works:
In XP I deleted one key up from where 'user choice'
would be in Vista/Win 7.
So to restore the default program to open this extension, I deleted
HKEY_CURENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Fileexts\.myExt
(where .myExt is the extension you're trying to fix)
(Note that this worked in both windows xp and windows 7) – Chris – 2011-12-14T14:27:32.933