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by pwojcieh

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Office XP associates all picture files (jpg files, tiff, etc) with itself. I can open my jpg files, in Adobe, but when I send it or copy it to another CD and go to another machine, they can't view the picture files. How do I break this association? I went to the view options, but there is nothing there that indicates that the files are associated this way. Can you tell me how to break the association, and get jpg to be jpg's, tiff's tiff's, etc.

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by williamscott

Goto My Computer
and in the menu there is an item called 'Tools'
and then goto Folder Options, in there, there is a tab with File Types...

In there you can re-associate the file types to another program.

Hope this helps..
- William

by pwojcieh

Thanks for the info, but I all ready tried that before I asked the question. I have NT4.0 as an operating system, so your suggestion didn't work. I knew where you were headed, because in 4.0 you go to view and options

by brian

In Win2k the following is the easiest way to do this - I assume XP is the same, but you never know.

1. Right click on a file of that type (i.e. a jpg or tiff file).

2. Select Properties

3. Press the button that says CHANGE

4. Choose the new program from the list or browse to find the executable file.

That is it!

by brian

This has to be set on each machine. Associations are as you can see a real pain sometimes especially since some programs automatically take over every file type that they can. This is especially frustrating since some programs don't handle certain files as well as others. You just have to fix this on a case by case basis.

You may put the setup file on your cd for the program that you use to open that file type. This should keep you from getting completely stuck without the program on the other computer. An example of this is Adobe Acrobat Reader, you see it on many program disks because the manuals are generally in PDF format.

by pwojcieh

I copied the image files to a CD, and although I can open them, when I take the images on the CD to another computer that doesn't have Office XP they can't even be viewed in a browser. How do I get these files to be viewed when office XP is not present? I can't copy the setup files, for Office XP, I don't want to have Microsoft breathing down my neck for distributing illegal software.

by pwojcieh

My operating system is NT 4.0 so the first answer is not correct. I stated in my question that I had tried this (using the NT commands, and it did not work. Neither did the suggestions work in Question 2.
Answer number three makes sense, but putting the setup files for Office XP is probably a licesnisng violation, and I don't think I want to fight with Microsoft. How do I send a file that is associated with Office XP and have the person be able to open it?

by brian

Doesn't IE open these files?
You can put a copy of IE on your CD. IE automatically take over the associations.

by tsimmo67

Well heres another one. using W2k when you right click on a icon it give you the option of
Open with...
This is hopefully the same in win NT. Also you could try opening say paint and then use the open option there(no doubt you have but it neverhurts to be certain)
-Travis

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