[AccessD] Setting the program default application

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Wed Dec 28 14:31:29 CST 2011


Yep, I tried that.  It refused to "keep" the change.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 12/28/2011 12:50 PM, Michael Bahr wrote:
> John, try Right-Click Properties | Change
>
> You should see the actual application that is being used.  Here you can
> implicitly change to whatever app you want.
>
> Mike
>
>> I thought that you could right click on an access database file, then Open
>> with / Choose Program /
>> Always use the selected program / browse / then find the program to use
>> and select that and it would
>> permanently modify the double click program used to open that file type.
>>
>> That is not happening, in fact even as I select Access2K and do the open
>> it immediately uses
>> AccessXP to perform the open.
>>
>> WTHO?
>>
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