Idea: File Association Snapshot

[ald4]

I've just reinstalled Irfanview on my Vista machine and looking at the file associations section I have the same dilemma I usually do when installing a new program

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[mouser]

yes, i think this is a very good idea.

[lanux128]

+1 especially the option to revert to the previous app.

[Coeluh]

Very good idea, very good explained!

[tanatos]

Working on it...stay tunned 

[Darwin]

Agreed - nice idea and thanks to ald4 for posting it and tanatos for taking up the challenge 

There are, of course, shareware applications, such as Associate This!, that do this.

[ald4]

Great!
Glad so many people think this is a good idea

Darwin. Tried the trial of Associate This! last week when you suggested it but couldn't get it to work at all - not even the backup and restore associations from backup would work.

Was going to leave it on my PC and try getting it working when I had more time, but explorer crashed on me 4 times tonight and Problem Reporting says AsThisX.dll is involved.

thanks anyway

[cmpm]

FileTypes Manager may help, but there is no history of prior associations.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/file_types_manager.html

[cmpm]

Also found this, but I'm not sure if it will show the history, although it mentions something about keeping track of it.
I haven't tried it yet.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1639076,00.asp

[cmpm]

well crap, sorry but quickassociation cost 8 dollars, having to register with pc magazine.

I had to go the dentist (fun fun) and did a quick search for file type history before i left.

But file types manager is free. It's almost like windows file types but a bit more to it.

[TucknDar]

FileTypesManager is a nirsoft-tool, can be found here: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/file_types_manager.html