How to set default app per filetype programmatically?
I want to get independent of installed apps and share most of my apps as portable versions in a cloud drive. So my idea is whenever I sit on a new device I just sync my cloud drive and start some kind of process which installs my setup.
By installing I mean setting up my windows settings and so on. And I want to set the default apps per filetype. For example bind .txt files to d:cloudnotepad++notepad++.exe
Here is a simplified script how I try to do this. I stripped ErrorActions and so on to make it more readable.
$exe = "d:cloudnotepad++notepad++.exe"
$app = "notepad++.exe"
$ext = ".txt"
# Remove old associations
Remove-Key -Key "HKCU:SoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerFileExts$ext"
Remove-Key -Key "HKCR:$ext"
Remove-Key -Key "HKCR:$app"
# Setup new associations
cmd /c assoc $ext=$app
cmd /c ftype $app="$exe" "%1" "%*"
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKCR:$app" `
-Name "(Default)" `
-Value "Text file" `
-Type String
This kind of works. Whenever I try to open a .txt file now it asks me which app to use and pre-selects notepad++.
Okay that's kind of annoying but I could live with that. Although. When I check always use this app to open .txt files it gets simply ignored. I always get this dialog.
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I want to get independent of installed apps and share most of my apps as portable versions in a cloud drive. So my idea is whenever I sit on a new device I just sync my cloud drive and start some kind of process which installs my setup.
By installing I mean setting up my windows settings and so on. And I want to set the default apps per filetype. For example bind .txt files to d:cloudnotepad++notepad++.exe
Here is a simplified script how I try to do this. I stripped ErrorActions and so on to make it more readable.
$exe = "d:cloudnotepad++notepad++.exe"
$app = "notepad++.exe"
$ext = ".txt"
# Remove old associations
Remove-Key -Key "HKCU:SoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerFileExts$ext"
Remove-Key -Key "HKCR:$ext"
Remove-Key -Key "HKCR:$app"
# Setup new associations
cmd /c assoc $ext=$app
cmd /c ftype $app="$exe" "%1" "%*"
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKCR:$app" `
-Name "(Default)" `
-Value "Text file" `
-Type String
This kind of works. Whenever I try to open a .txt file now it asks me which app to use and pre-selects notepad++.
Okay that's kind of annoying but I could live with that. Although. When I check always use this app to open .txt files it gets simply ignored. I always get this dialog.
windows windows-10 powershell windows-registry
asked Feb 10 at 15:59
BretteteteBrettetete
1,0902818
add a comment |
I want to get independent of installed apps and share most of my apps as portable versions in a cloud drive. So my idea is whenever I sit on a new device I just sync my cloud drive and start some kind of process which installs my setup.
By installing I mean setting up my windows settings and so on. And I want to set the default apps per filetype. For example bind .txt files to d:cloudnotepad++notepad++.exe
Here is a simplified script how I try to do this. I stripped ErrorActions and so on to make it more readable.
$exe = "d:cloudnotepad++notepad++.exe"
$app = "notepad++.exe"
$ext = ".txt"
# Remove old associations
Remove-Key -Key "HKCU:SoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerFileExts$ext"
Remove-Key -Key "HKCR:$ext"
Remove-Key -Key "HKCR:$app"
# Setup new associations
cmd /c assoc $ext=$app
cmd /c ftype $app="$exe" "%1" "%*"
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKCR:$app" `
-Name "(Default)" `
-Value "Text file" `
-Type String
This kind of works. Whenever I try to open a .txt file now it asks me which app to use and pre-selects notepad++.
Okay that's kind of annoying but I could live with that. Although. When I check always use this app to open .txt files it gets simply ignored. I always get this dialog.
windows windows-10 powershell windows-registry
asked Feb 10 at 15:59
BretteteteBrettetete
1,0902818
I want to get independent of installed apps and share most of my apps as portable versions in a cloud drive. So my idea is whenever I sit on a new device I just sync my cloud drive and start some kind of process which installs my setup.
By installing I mean setting up my windows settings and so on. And I want to set the default apps per filetype. For example bind .txt files to d:cloudnotepad++notepad++.exe
Here is a simplified script how I try to do this. I stripped ErrorActions and so on to make it more readable.
$exe = "d:cloudnotepad++notepad++.exe"
$app = "notepad++.exe"
$ext = ".txt"
# Remove old associations
Remove-Key -Key "HKCU:SoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerFileExts$ext"
Remove-Key -Key "HKCR:$ext"
Remove-Key -Key "HKCR:$app"
# Setup new associations
cmd /c assoc $ext=$app
cmd /c ftype $app="$exe" "%1" "%*"
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKCR:$app" `
-Name "(Default)" `
-Value "Text file" `
-Type String
This kind of works. Whenever I try to open a .txt file now it asks me which app to use and pre-selects notepad++.
Okay that's kind of annoying but I could live with that. Although. When I check always use this app to open .txt files it gets simply ignored. I always get this dialog.
windows windows-10 powershell windows-registry
windows windows-10 powershell windows-registry
asked Feb 10 at 15:59
BretteteteBrettetete
1,0902818
asked Feb 10 at 15:59
BretteteteBrettetete
1,0902818
edited Feb 11 at 22:10
Brettetete
asked Feb 10 at 15:59
BretteteteBrettetete
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asked Feb 10 at 15:59
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asked Feb 10 at 15:59
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