Find out which application handles a certain file extension

re: Find out which application handles a certain file extension

Chris Nahr — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:44:03 GMT

Thanks for this entry... this is the first time I've seen these very useful commands!

However, after some digging I found that they are actually built into the command-line shell (cmd.exe). So there are no programs assoc.exe and ftype.exe on the hard disk, just the commands assoc and ftype.

re: Find out which application handles a certain file extension

junfeng — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:52:48 GMT

thanks Chris.

Updated.

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Jason Haley — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 05:38:29 GMT

re: Find out which application handles a certain file extension

David Levine — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:44:22 GMT

Thanks for finding these; this is much faster/easier then hunting through the Tools\Folder Options menus for the values.

These commands also allow you to set the value. For example, if you don't like the default text editor you can change it like this:

ftype txtfile=c:\SomeDir\NotePad2.exe %1

(you might want to save the old value 1st by:)
ftype txtfile > OldValue.txt

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re: Find out which application handles a certain file extension

dotNet Junkie — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:35:27 GMT

Thanks, that's cool. I've been programming for many years, but I don't even know this exists!