Another geeky post I’m afraid. There’s loads of extensionless files out there like LICENSE, Readme, Makefile etc
that cannot be associated with an application directly from Windows’ UI; alas, the
Always use the selected program to open this kind of file checkbox is simply denying us the obvious. Log in as admin
and run this little reg file to associate all such files with
UltraEdit. You can use any application you
want of course, that’s just my favourite editor there.
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.]
@="noext"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\noext]
@="no extension"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\noext\shell]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\noext\shell\open]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\noext\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\UltraEdit\\uedit32.exe\" %1"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\noext\shell\print]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\noext\shell\print\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\UltraEdit\\uedit32.exe\" /p \"%1\""