File association in Bridge

I have CS PS6, Win 7, but recently installed PS Elements 10 to help a friend who is new to photo ediing so that we'd both be looking at the same picture if and when he ran into problems. However, the Elements installation changd the file associations. Why it should do this without even asking is beyond me, or would beexcept that this is an Adobe product. Thank you to the developers of PSE 10! I have changed .jpg and .bmp back, but RAW files will not open in Adobe Camera Raw. Where is the .exe file for ACR? Or what is its name? If I knew that I'd be able to get the association sorted out.
Thanks
David

It's only for CS6, and I imagine will handle both opening Canon .CRW files, and converting to .DNG.
Here is a link from the Adobe site for a bit more understanding of Camera Raw and DNG, however there is plenty of additional info to find in books, Adobe TV etc, just Google a bit.
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/extend.displayTab2.html
And as Curt already stated, If you have a new dSLR and your PS is not supporting the latest ACR for this you can always use the DNG route. This free converter is always available in the latest download and lets you convert the new Raw type to DNG and those DNG files can be opened in older ACR version.
But using CS6 you have access to the latest options of ACR (the new 2012 conversion and different development options)
BTW, ACR 7.2 is the latest version but it seems the manual download is not available. Using the AAM (menu help / updates should do this for you) should auto update both ACR and the DNG converter.
If you do want a manual download check this forum post, but be aware that activating the given links for Mac and Windows starts to download the file directly, can't find a way to check the site itself and don't know who controls this site. However the forum posted reactions of satisfied users:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4769823

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