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

Hi :)
Thanks :)  Good to see a few copy-left programs in your list of archive 
managers.  Some of those look familiar but i haven't tried them. :)  


If you open the file-browser and then click on something like
Tools - "Folder Options" - "File Types" (2nd or 3rd tab of 4?)
then you'll see that each file-ending/extension has several sub-categories.  I 
don't think those sub-categories are set by which program created the file = 
that would be too easy.  


It is true that if you take a file in Windows and rename it to make the 
file-ending/extension some random 3 letters then suddenly Windows can't decide 
what to open the file with.  It can be a sneaky way of blocking access to anyone 
that doesn't know how to use the "Open with .." functionality, ie most Windows 
users.  


Wow!  I was able to open ods and odp with an archive manager to get at the 
separate component parts of the files.  I've never had much difficulty with Open 
Document Formats so i hadn't tried before.
Thanks and regards from
Tom :)





----- Original Message ----
> From: Stephan Zietsman <sziets@gmail.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Sent: Mon, 13 June, 2011 8:06:47
> Subject: 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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