How do you cancel Photoshop as the default file opener?

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genericaudioperson
Jul 12, 2007
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hello,

How do you set Photoshop Elements so that it does NOT try to open a file when you click on it?

I DO NOT want Photoshop to try to open a PDF file or a bitmap file, or any other file when I click on it. I only want Photoshop to open a file when I *tell* it to. Specifically, only when I launch Photoshop, go to the file menu and then select a file to open or import.

Other than in this exact circumstance I want Photoshop out of the scene entirely. It’s really screwing up my work when it assumes I want Photoshop to open up these files.
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Jim
Jul 12, 2007
"genericaudioperson" wrote in message
hello,

How do you set Photoshop Elements so that it does NOT try to open a file when you click on it?
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You cannot set anything in Photoshop Elements to accomplish this task. This is an operating system function.
Instead, you change the file association as documented in Help & Support.

1. Open folder options in Explorer and navigate to the file associations area
or
2. Open folder options in the control panel and navigate to the file associations area.
or
3. Right click on a file and select properties. You will find a tab called "open with". Enter the
desired program. Then select "apply to all files of this type." or
4. Find the entry in the registry which controls the file associations for a given type of file.

Jim
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genericaudioperson
Jul 12, 2007
Thanks, Jim.

I discovered that after I posted this. Adobe has unfamiliar terms to me…. "file association". I disabled every association and it seems to be working well (as in not trying to launch Photoshop when I click on a file).
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Jim
Jul 13, 2007
"genericaudioperson" wrote in message
Thanks, Jim.

I discovered that after I posted this. Adobe has unfamiliar terms to me…. "file association". I disabled every association and it seems to be working well (as in not trying to launch Photoshop when I click on a file).
"file association" is an operating system term for the default program for use with a particular file type. The
term does not belong to Adobe.

I currently have Windows and Fax Viewer as my default program for tif and jpg. The reason is that
the Windows and Fax Viewer loads much quicker. If I want to use anything else for whatever reason,
it usually works better to start the program and then open whichever type I want.

Jim
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Bina
Jul 13, 2007
equally you can right click on any item and chose "Open With…" in order to chose the required application
"genericaudioperson" wrote in message
Thanks, Jim.

I discovered that after I posted this. Adobe has unfamiliar terms to me…. "file association". I disabled every association and it seems to be working well (as in not trying to launch Photoshop when I click on a file).
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Jim
Jul 13, 2007
"Bina" wrote in message
equally you can right click on any item and chose "Open With…" in order to chose the required application
"genericaudioperson" wrote in message
Thanks, Jim.

I discovered that after I posted this. Adobe has unfamiliar terms to me…. "file association". I disabled every association and it seems to be working well (as in not trying to launch Photoshop when I click on a file).
What this technique and the two which involve using the folder options do is change the account’s private registry to show the extensions.

Making the changes using regedit usually accomplishes the same task. You can, however, make the changes to the global registry to make the changes the default. In the folder options panel, you can cause the file type associations to revert to the default settings which it gets from the global registry.

Jim

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