Re: [libreoffice-users] Windows "Open with"

Tom Davies wrote:
> It is smart to have an archive manager in the context/right-click menu for many
> different purposes such as compressing a collection of files ready to email or
> whatever.  WinZip is probably still the best archive manager in Windows.

Just to mention a few alternatives:
7-zip (LGPL licence)
PeaZip (GPS licence)
WinRAR (shareware licence)

>  There are usually quite a few sub-categories of any particular
> format so changing, for example, "docX" to Writer using this method might not
> cover ALL ".docX"s.

Under Windows, I believe the file-manager only looks at the extension
to decide which program to use.  Unless I'm mistaken, it will use the
same program to open all *.docx files, regardless of which version the
file is or which program created it.


> Is odt an Xml format?  I seem to remember hearing it is but i'm not sure.

The OpenDocument format (odt, ods, odp, odb, odg, etc.) is indeed "an
XML-based file format":  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odf

> Also i don't know whether being non-Admin in Windows makes a difference to how
> the "Open with ..." thing works in Windows.

I don't think you need to have Admin rights to affect the "Open
with..." options.  Testing on the machine I'm currently using (without
Admin rights) the program does seem to get added to the "Open with..."
quick-list after the first time I've forced.

Regards
Stephan

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