Vista’s “Open With” Dialog a MAJOR step back!
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I often require to open a file in one viewer or another for example, in this case I wanted to open a VMware configuration file in an editor to change a setting. Previously in Windows XP, even in Windows 98, when you used to select the "Open With" option you used to see a number of programs to choose from, and if it was a configuration file, a unix one, I simply selected Wordpad, since Notepad didn't interpret the newline characters correctly, and life was easy!
In Windows 98:
But no longer in Windows Vista! When going to the open with option, I was greeted with the following dialog:
The only program to choose from is the officially associated program. I went on to click "Browse", and I was greeted with the following window, where I had to manually search for Wordpad to open the configuration file! Leading to wastage of seconds from my life, just because Microsoft changed something that didn't need any change at all.
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March 3rd, 2007 - 20:43
Whaddaya mean it “didn’t need any change”? They need to keep Office ascendant, and it won’t be if people can easily change what program they use to view a document.
March 3rd, 2007 - 22:18
The original version violated the prohibitio on ease of use.
March 3rd, 2007 - 22:19
The original version violated the prohibition on ease of use.
March 3rd, 2007 - 23:34
who cares, it’s retarded anyway, use a proper interface :
% progname filename
what more could you need !
March 3rd, 2007 - 23:59
Maht,
I agree with you for the most part.
But you ask what more I could need. Here it is:
$ program filename
(Sorry, couldn’t resist.)
If someone’s looking for ease of use, they’re not going to find it in a MS OS…
March 4th, 2007 - 01:48
My computing involves a lot of video reviewing. I like to use different players for different video formats…sometimes for the same video for benchmarking purposes.
I use the ‘Open With’ context menu a lot and it is one of the things that has bugged me most about Vista. Yes, as you choose different apps you get more choices, and the Browse feature works to an extent, but why do the icons need to be so big?!
I use a 1600×1050 resolution and don’t need big-ass icons in my non-customizeable windows and changes to things that worked great before the need to make them fancy and pretty.
- LoKi Out
March 4th, 2007 - 03:37
sorry, what a silly example. for a tif you will see all that handle tif, for html the same .. and you expect hundreds of apps to open a vmx file … bad bad example, which proves NOTHING.
March 4th, 2007 - 04:18
@exabyte
“tif you will see all that handle tif”
You think that mediaplayer can handle tif files?
The other programs list is a standard list of all the programs available in your system, at least the standard windows programs are included
March 4th, 2007 - 05:50
Click on the small arrow at the right hand side of “Other Programs”, some programs should come out…
March 4th, 2007 - 07:34
check this link
Word 2007 File Seems To Be Deleted When You Open And Save It Using DSOFramer ( http://www.irintech.com/x1/blogarchive.php?id=777 )
March 4th, 2007 - 07:39
What?
March 5th, 2007 - 01:51
You just need to drag and drop, no slow nobish windows through your way…
the major disvantage will be to change the file association…..
October 13th, 2007 - 13:03
I like to use textpad to open textfiles and photoshop to open jpg files. Now the option ‘open with’ seems to have been removed in Vista. No doubt I am going to find a great many retrograde feature in this huge bling bling system. One great step forward for Microsoft – one great step backwards for the rest of mankind …..
October 15th, 2007 - 02:55
I read the last post and found the little teeny tiny upside down ^ at the right. When clicking it does give the options.
I agree this is a step back.