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Windows 10 file associations

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When I double click on a bas file WinFBE V1.6.2 opens up. However, I have WinFBE32 pinned to my Startup menu and that opens WinFBE V1.6.3; Paul's latest offering.

I have found it impossible to change the file association in Windows 10.

I did a registry search and found this key:

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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ApplicationAssociationToasts
There I found these entries:
Apllications\WinFBE32.exe with various extensions.

Which WinFBE32 Microsoft?

I also found
Applications\WinFBE32105.exe with various extensions.

I created WinFBE32105.exe and WinFBE32106.exe but neither exist any more.

So, I deleted all references to WinFBE* and did a system restart.

Bas files are still associated with WinFBE V1.6.2 and my WinFBE32 on my Startup menu still points to WinFBE V1.6.3.

At the bottom of the Settings>Apps>Default apps page is 'Set defaults by app'. Clicking on that sees Windows having a think and then closes Settings.

At the bottom of the page is 'Choose defalt apps by file type'. There we have a .bas entry with WinFBE32.

Which WinFBE32 Microsoft? I cannot get that to point to WinFBE V1.6.3.

If I right click on a bas file and hover over 'Open with' I get 'JK-IDE' and 'TextPad'; no mention of WinFBE32. Selecting 'Choose another app' will not let me remove WinFBE32 - yes it is there. Going with 'More apps' ignores my attempt to get WinFBE32 to point to WinFBE32 V1.6.3.

Bit of a mess, Microsoft. Nothing new there then.
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Right click a .bas file, choose "Open with" in the context menu, click "Choose another app", then "More applications", then "Search another application in your computer" (or whathever it says in your computer, but must be something similar). The Open File Dialog will be activated, navigate to the right folder and choose WinFBExx.EXE, and then check "Use always this application to open .bas files".
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I already tried that. I did not get a chance to "Use always this application to open .bas files". As soon as I chose WinFEBE32 in the WinFBE_Suite I found myself in WinFBE V1.6.2.

Having deleted all the WinFBE* in the registry WinFBE32.exe is back again and now deleted.

My next trick is to rename WinFBE32 in the WinFBE_Suite.

I'll be back. <smile>
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> I already tried that. I did not get a chance to "Use always this application to open .bas files". As soon as I chose WinFEBE32 in the WinFBE_Suite I found myself in WinFBE V1.6.2.

Then try to check it before choosing WINFBE32.exe.
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You can also use the Control Panel.
See: https://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=19307
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I already tried that as well.

I renamed, in the WinFBE_Suite diectory, WinFBE32 & WinFBE64 to WinFBE32X & WinFBE64X. WinFBE32X is now in my Start menu and loads V1.6.3.

WinFBE is working fine and I can switch between 32 bit and 64 without issue.

Clicking on a bas file now opens V1.6.3.

The registry now shows:
Applications\WinFBE32.exe
Applications\WinFBE32X.exe

Don't know why WinFBE32.exe came back so I deleted that again.

The 'Open with' now shows WinFBE32X.

Why do we have to do things like this, Microsoft?
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That Control Panel link gets into 'Settings>Apps' at step 4 and I had already been down that route.

It is not the first time that I have seen Windows get its knickers in a twist by putting a file name in the registry instead of a full path. You would think by 2018 they would know better.
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I have just done a Restart and that WinFBE32.exe is back again. It is in the 'Open with' list which is now headed by WinFBE32X. If I double click the WinFBE32 entry I go into WinFBE V1.6.2.

Yer gotta laugh.
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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\EXPLORER\FILEEXTS
Under .bas we have 'OpenWithList' and I found WinFBE32.exe and WinFBE64.exe.

I edited them with extreme prejudice.<grin>

WinFBE32 no longer appears in the initial 'Open with' list. It is there with 'More apps' but I don't know what intelligence is been used here - 'More apps' does not list every exe on our system.

Restarted system and I am still in one piece.

BTW, I exported HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.bas before editing. I am not totally reckless. <smile>
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