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Why does windows photo viewer insist on stealing file associations for image files? No matter how hard i try and set Office Picture manager from office with .png and .tiff. Windows decides that it wants to make photo viewer the default image application.
Office picture manager also does not list in the "default programs" list making it impossible to set without drilling down to each file type and manually changing the program to office manager.
This is the same on windows 8/10 as well, unfortunately now the new problem is the new style (cr)app called "photos" which steals file types and makes it next to impossible to set file types to other applications.
It wouldn't be so bad if the included photo viewer and photos were not such ugly and patheticly useless applications and (cr)apps.
Is there a way to set this with group policy or registery. All i want to do is set the image file types, jpg, png and tiff to office picture manage, seems like a simple task.

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File associations in Bridge CS4 for multiple images

After a "cache purge" my file associations got altered. I can go into Edit>preferences> file associations and change that to photoshop; but if I click MULTIPLE images in Bridge and right click "open with" I only get Illustrator as an option. How can I change this to photoshop as a default when trying to open MULTIPLE images?

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Associating image files with Photoshop

I'd like to associate jpg or raw files with Photoshop, whereby I can click on the image file and it will launch directly into Photoshop. When I try to associate through Windows 8 it fails to find Photoshop CC as an option to open any form of graphic files, yet I can open PS CC directly and then open the files, or go through Bridge. Thanks.

I find in windows two thing need to be set correctly for that to work like you want. First the file extension associations must to set to ypir Photoshop version and the windows registry keys for photoshop.exe shell commands open and edit must be set correctly.
File associations may be checked and changes with the control panels default programs file association application and the registry keys can be checked. and modified with regedit.

10.4.7 update screws up image file associations

Since installing the 10.4.7 update, all my image files now open in Preview as the default application, regardless of Type or Creator.
I know that the file association of an individual can be changed via Get Info, however, I have 11,000+ image files in various formats as well as several thousand PDFs scattered across three hard drive, and do not want to waste several days tracking them all down and changing their file associations manually.
I know that the "Change All" button in the Get Info panel is supposed to change all documents of a given type to the selected application, however, the "Change All" function seems to be broken because hitting "Change All" simply reverts everything to Preview.
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Thanks.
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Well, I had it happen to me again yesterday, i.e., all graphics files defaulting to Preview. I changed them back using the procedure I used earlier, but if this continues, it's going to be a MAJOR problem.
Even after you selected, for
example, Graphic Converter as the default application
in the Open With pop-up menu, per step 3 in "Mac OS X 10.4 Help: Changing
the application that opens a document."
Unfortunately, no, not even after selecting Graphic Converter as the default app in the Open With menu.
I think you
mean Show Inspector, which is Command-Option-I, vs.
Command-I for Get Info. The Inspector displays
common info for a selection of objects, so you can
change the default app for multiple files in one
window.
Hmm ... I get the same "Multiple Item Info" panel whether I hit Command-I and Command-Option-I if I have more than 10 files selected. In any case, I hit Command-I to bring up the Multiple Item Info panel.
3. The anomalies you described are very strange. As
a general check, run the Procedure specified in my
"Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache
Corruption" FAQ. I'd recommend at least running
Steps 1-3.
I'll give it a go. Thanks!
2.0 GHz G5 Dual

File associations in Windows 8.1 for applications on a network location

Hi,
From Windows 7 to Windows 8 it has been done alot of changes regarding file file assocations. It seem that the main reason was security and was "patched" by having Windows read the hash for the applications instead of where the application was
located.
but there seem to be some major hicups and there is limited info on the web covering these issues.
First issue: when running: Dism /Online /Export-DefaultAppAssociations:\\Server\Share\AppAssoc.xml and then creating a GPO configuration pointing to
thi XML file. With this feature only common file extensions is supported and when users are changing to another computer, these settings is not possible to syncronize using roaming profiles.
Second issue: In the appassoc.xml file applications must be either appid(metro app) or common application on local harddrive to be registered and not a .EXE
file on a network location.
It seems a little strange if this is the case and if there is no other options for administratos to set file associations in more flexible ways. Does anyone have some more info on
this topic other than these link:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825038.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mrmlcgn/archive/2013/02/26/windows-8-associate-a-file-type-or-protocol-with-a-specific-app-using-a-gpo-e-g-default-mail-client-for-mailto-protocol.aspx
https://keithga.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/file-associations-in-windows-8/

Hi Primeid,
You could use Group policy for file associations or you could deploy the xml file during image deployment. However as you mentioned that the file associations only applies to common application on local hard drive or metro app.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mniehaus/archive/2014/01/10/configuring-file-associations-in-windows-8-1.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mrmlcgn/archive/2013/02/26/windows-8-associate-a-file-type-or-protocol-with-a-specific-app-using-a-gpo-e-g-default-mail-client-for-mailto-protocol.aspx
We understand your confusion about this, but we hope you understand that using network location for file association deployment is highly insecure and it is out of our recommendation since the content in that network location could be changed without any
notification or permissions constraint.
Thanks for your understanding.
Regards
D. Wu
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GNOME and KDE file associations

Hi,
I like to use KDE and GNOME, alternating between them. Sounds crazy, but I like both. Please, let's avoid the "GNOME vs. KDE" discussion, right?
My problem is: I like to use different file associations when I'm using GNOME or KDE. For example, I'd like to associate text files with gedit in GNOME and with Kate in KDE. But if I associate text files to gedit in GNOME, when I run KDE and open a text file it opens gedit. If I associate them with Kate in KDE, when I'm using GNOME it'll use Kate as its text editor.
Some time ago I could have both desktop environments without this mess. Can I have this behaviour back?

Yeah, I got tired of Evolution not knowing about opening *.docs in openoffice. After several hours of research, the key is the /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache, /opt/gnome/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache, and the MimeType fields in the *.desktop files. The mimeinfo.cache in /usr was empty and the /opt one had gthumb and other apps but no OO:
[MIME Cache]
application/x-gnome-stones=gnome-stones.desktop
image/jpeg=gthumb.desktop
application/postscript=ggv.desktop
...snip...
That's a lot of blather to say that the fix for Evolution/OpenOffice was to add the proper MimeType entry to /usr/share/applications/ooo645writer.desktop:
MimeType=application/vnd.ms-word;application/msword
and then run "update-desktop-database". Problem solved.
Another problem is that within Evolution it says an attached doc is a "application/msword" and not a "Microsoft Word Document". Unfortunately this is because freedesktop.org decided to use application/vnd.ms-word instead of application/msword like the rest of the world. If you check the vnd.ms-word entry in /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml it defines an alias msword but the new mime system doesn't appear to recognize aliases yet. The solution I used was to rename the entry to msword. Another possible solution might be to remove the msword alias from the vnd.ms-word entry and create a new msword entry based on the vnd.ms-word one. Then run "update-mime-database /usr/share/mime". Hope that made sense.
I think the defaults.list is part of the previous GNOME MIME setup cause I don't have one and I'm not experiencing any problems. For other apps check for the associations in the mimeinfo.cache's and if missing add the MimeType's to the app's *.desktop.

FAQ: What do I need to know about file associations when I load Photoshop CS6?

Use Windows control panel to establish the file association.
This solution uses Photoshop as an example. For any other product, replace that product's filename extension and executable name with the product and file type you are attempting to restore.
Windows 7/Vista
Choose Start > Control Panels.
Change to list view:
Double-click Default Programs.
   4. Click Associate A File Type.
   5. Select .PSD from the list.
Click Change Program.
If your desired version of Photoshop is listed, choose, it. Otherwise, click Browse to locate it and click Open.
Ensure the "Always use the selected program..." option is selected. Click OK to close the Open With dialog box.
Double-click an .PSD file to ensure that it opens with your preferred version of Photoshop.
On Windows 7, click the View By pop-up menu and choose Small Icons.
Windows Vista, click Classic View in the upper left.
Windows XP
       Choose Start > Control Panels > Folder Options.
       Click the File Types Tab.
       Select PSD from the list.
Note: If you do not have PSD in the list of extensions, skip ahead to the next section, Create a filename extension.
       Click Advanced.
       Select the Open action, and click Edit
       Click Browse and navigate to the Photoshop.exe for your version. Select it and click Open.
Note: Make sure that the resulting value in the Application Used textbox has the following syntax, especially the "%1" (with quotes included). If it does not, manually edit the field contents so that it does:
"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6\Photoshop.exe" "%1"
       Select Use PSD and click OK to close the New Action dialog box.
       Click OK to close the Edit File Type dialog box.
       Click Close to close the Folder Options dialog box.
      Double-click an .PSD file to ensure that it opens with your preferred version of Photoshop.
How to associate files for Photoshop CS5 with Bridge CS5 and Photoshop CS6 with Bridge CS6
1. CS6 assigns all standard graphics files to be associated with CS6 and thus causes Bridge CS5 to invoke Photoshop CS6. The objective is to have Bridge CS5 invoke Photoshop CS5 at least for chosen file types. Ensure neither CS5 nor CS6 is invoked.
2. In the Win7 Start Menu search box, type "file association".
3. Select the "Change the file type associated with a file extension". This starts a window titled "Associate a file type or protocol with a specific program".
4. All of the graphic files are assocated with Photoshop CS6.   For those files you want to associate with Photoshop CS5, click on the chosen file extension (e.g. .cr2, .nef, .psd, etc) and click on the "Change Program" to associate the extension to Adobe Photoshop CS5. (note. this step seems to be a necessary operation since, when I simply modified the Bridge CS5 file type associations, Bridge 5 did not honor the change).
5. Start Bridge CS5. Choose "Edit -> Preferences -> File Type Associations".
6. For each file type you wish opened in CS5, change the association from CS6: choose the "Browse" option and locate the CS5 version of Photoshop.exe". This is probably in Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CS5 (64 Bit)/Photoshop.exe. Click on OK to complete the association.
Now you can invoke Bridge CS5 and it will properly invoke Photoshop CS5. If you invoke Bridge CS6, it will invoke Photoshop CS6. If you use file manager to invoke one of your selected file extension types, it will start Photoshop CS5. Other graphic files will start Photoshop CS6.
If you wish, you can go back and reassociate the chosen types to PhotoshopCS 6 - but your Bridge 5 will still invoke PS5 for your chosen extensions since the Bridge-assigned file associations takes priority over the windows default program.

Also, see:
Font Management in OS X
http://images.apple.com/pro/pdf/L311277AFontTTv4.pdf
http://www.creativetechs.com/tips/SVC-fonts/Fonts-2007-SVC.pdf
http://dl.extensis.com/downloads/SC/EN/P/FontsBest_Practices_inOSX.pdf
http://www.macworld.com/article/44942/2005/05/julyworkingmac.html

Bridge file associations SNAFU

Since I installed photoshop CC I've lived with 2 versions of bridge on my system. THey dont coexist very well, but I've put up with it because in the past I've ended up having problems...
Last night I freed up a bit of space by uninstalling bridge cs6 and photoshop cs6 (NOT CC - I left that installed to try and avoid this sort of thing). Now bridge has forgotten my file association prefs - and whats more the prefs dialogue no longer allows me to set an image file to open in photoshop. See pic.
I could manually go through and associate each image filetype with photoshop, but I'm not going to. Because life is too short, and then I wouldn't get to moan at adobe.
Can anyone tell me a simple fix for this that doesn't involve manually doing the above, or uninstalling photoshop CC just to be able to reinstall bridge CC. Why is there no bridge CC2014? It would appear this is where the problem lies.

Sorry for the noise. I misunderstood your depth of knowlege and what you had tried. I also committed the sin of not testing the procedure all the way through because I did not want to change the association on my computer. I get the same behavior.
Guess for .jpg
Registry shows for .jpg:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.jpg\UserCho ice Progid = Applications\Photoshop.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Applications\Photoshop.exe\shell\open\command (Default) = "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Photoshop.exe" "%1"
UserChoice seems to be added when I made the association choice. Note that it points into Applications with a non-version specific Photoshop.exe. Within HKLM\....\Applications there is only one Photoshop.exe -- no version -- and that entry points to CS6.
I believe that explains why the browsed to association is CS6. It does not explain why it would be set up that way. Probably has something to do with Windows special handling of certain file extensions. Beyond my depth and tells me I am not going to find a solution.

Photoshop CS5 has lost file associations

I recently installed both Photoshop and Dreamweaver CS5, deleting the CS4 versions after installation. I have lost file associations for all Photoshop-related files: eg jpg, tiff, gif and so forth, and the psd extension as vanished altogether. (That means that if you click on a .jpg file, it opens in a free MS utility like Paintshop rather than where you want it to go: in this instance, to Photoshop.)
I have taken the following measures, none of which have worked:
Manually altered the associations in Folder Options. I can browse to photoshop.exe, but nothing happens when I select it.
I have gone into the registry and deleted all associations under the relevant file types, eg .jpg etc. Restarting folder options replaces them exactly as they were, and I still cannot associate anything with Photoshop.
I have run Photoshop from the command prompt with the tag /regserver which ought to re-register it. Nothing happens. (If you want to try this, open the Start > Run box, browse to the .exe file and append (separated by a space) /regserver
I have changed and saved all file associations in the Bridge Options section. They are still there after I restart Bridge, but it has no effect on the overall file associations.
So that leaves me stuck. Both CS5 programs are registered in the program list, and both appear in the Start menu list of programs. Neither appear in the Folder Options list. I am running on XP Pro with today's (16 Sept 2010) MS updates. Can anyone help with this?

Solution
I have found how to fix this, for me at least and on an XP machine. Some users may find the procedure a bit unnerving. You should anyway back up your registry before making these changes.
Start > Run > regedit
Go to:
HKCurrentUser\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts
That will give you a long list of file extensions: ex .jpg, .png
Scroll down to and select the relevant ones, one by one. This is moderately laborious, but what follows is repeated exactly. (I found the .tiff extension was slightly different and left it alone. I never use tiffs so I don't know if it works unchanged.)
When you click on the + box for e.g. .jpg, two 'folders' open. These are
OpenWithList
This sets the list of potential programs to use for this extension, lettered a,b,c etc.The last entry in the 'folder' is MRUList which sets the priority order for these programs, eg if it has 'bcade' then program 'b' is first, 'c' is second etc. You can edit this order by clicking on it.)
OpenWithProgIds
This stores what kind of image this is. Under .jpg I found that I had 'jpefile' and something like Photoshop.9 (I don't recall exactly.) This refers to a very old version of Photoshop, certainly not the last one on this machine. All the other relevant image files had much the same terms associated with them. Some had four or five older Photoshop references: you can delete these entirely by right clicking on them. You then right click on the remaining Photoshop reference and alter it to read Photoshop.Image.12 Do not change the identity entry, e.g. the term 'jpefile', as mentioned above.
It is also worth navigating back up to
HKCurrentUser\Software\Adobe\Photoshop
I found that I had reference to five separate versions of Photoshop. You can delete all but (numerically below) the 12.0 folder.
Close regedit and reboot. You will find that Folder associations now recognise Photoshop as a valid program and assign it to the files that you have changed. I have not tried adding to the list in Explorer > Folder associations.
This is pretty shameful, frankly. Adobe's installation program should clean out all preceding registry entries when it de-installs a version. It should most certainly write Photoshop12 refereces when installing. This must be a pretty geenral problem.

Lost file associations (Not the old version issue) Win 7 & CS5

Something corrupted my installation of CS5 a month or so ago after it had been working correctly and I lost all the image file associations. Photoshop worked fine but only if I directly opened files from within. Also all the other image packages were missing from the file association list in the Windows 7 file associations tool, not just Photoshop. Using the Windows tool to find the programmes dot exe file and create an association also locked up at the select the right package phase.
I have fixed this now and my reason for posting is that several previously suggested fixes in both the MS Windows fora and elsewhere on these Adobe forums were either very complicated requiring direct registry editing or didn't work. It has taken me a while to find a work-around that worked, hence this post.
1) Firstly - as is stated elesewhere the obvious answer of simply reinstalling Photoshop over the existing copy doesn't work! Unfortunately it was a while before I found this out, with several time wasting retries of this as a fix attempt.
2) Not saying this is guaranteed to work in every case but I ran a 3rd party free Registry Cleaner tool, this appears to have fixed the bug in the registry allowing the Windows 7 File Associations tool to work properly again. Once that was fixed linking up each graphic type was simple.
Reason for posting is I wasted lots of time thinking the issue must have been a legacy from my earlier instal of a trial version of Master Suite or the older Photoshop 7 being replaced even though my CS5 edition had been working Ok for some time. because this is what is given as the usual cause. However I think in my case it was after loading and then deleting other graphics software, possibly Real Player, which had grabbed the associations and corruped registry settings somehow at uninstall. It appears registry cleaner restored the corruption and allowed the standard Win 7 tool to work again.
Hope this can help someone else.

First, let me say thanks to John for posting his experience here. I think that Adobe does a poor job of managing file associations, given that we do hear of a lot of folks who see them get fouled up due to doing normal things like uninstalling earlier versions.
I'd like to ask, though: Did you try using the Preferences - File Type Associations dialog in Bridge?
Curt Y wrote:
Not being a computer "geek" myself I personally can not say it is a bad thing to try
A comment on "registry cleaners" in general:
I am a career computer "geek", and yes, Curt's right: Registry cleaners in general are a terrible idea. There are a few that encompass some valuable functionality such as deletion of old files from TEMP folders, but that's something one can do on one's own as well.
It's simply impossible for the programmer of a piece of software to know what information can be safely deleted from YOUR file system or YOUR Windows registry, which is a database.
Nor is it necessary to "clean" a registry regularly, as some say, to keep a system working well. That's hype, propagated by the registry cleaner makers. I use a system every day that's on the same installation of Windows 7 that first went in at the end of 2009. It's stable and fast as ever. I've even done several hardware upgrades and restored the same OS setup using system image backups just to keep the same fully configured, perfectly working system.
Ever hear people claim they have to reinstall Windows every so often? One of the reasons could well be that they've used a registry cleaner.
-Noel

File associations don't update [Partially SOLVED]

Dear all
I have just installed Xnview with Crossover office and I planned to use it as default image viewer. I have currently kdemod installed.
When I try to change the file association in kcontrol the update is not saved. If I choose "open with" in krusader it doesn't show xnview in the menu. If I force the image to open with xnview it does open.
This lack of updating is only happening with this case as I just changed the directory file association to krusader and it stuck
The updating for xnview doesn't work even if I run kcontrol as root
any idea?
Cippa
Last edited by Cippa Lippa (2008-05-16 12:16:34)

the problem is that I am running arch64 and xnview is not compatible :-(
anyway I think I found at least part of the problem
in KDE control center under "File Associations" it is not enough soemtimes to just add an applicatioon to the list "Application preference order". The reason is that sometimes, for some reason, that application you want to use is not associated with specific file types in the MIME catalog
what needs to be done thus is
1) add the application you want to the list of "Application preference order"
2) select the entry in the list
3) click on Edit
4) check on the third tab called "Application"
5) see the list below of "Supported File Types"
6) add all the file types that you want associated with that application
7) apply
8) go back to the main file association menu and check all the file types you have associated and verify that your application is listed in the list of preferred application
9) now if you want you can change the order in the "Application preference order"
I found this to work in terms of getting your application to remain in the list "Application preference order". The problem still sometimes is that the specific order in which you put your application might not remain saved after you click on Apply
Cheers
Cippa

File association in xfce4

I am wondering how file association works in xfce4.
Examples: After emacs was installed, xfce4 wanted to open all kinds of files in a new instance of emacs. An .scm scheme source code file was opened in StarCraft Map Editor An .xml file was opened in winebrowser, many many instances of winebrowser were opened, stole all cpu time and I had to kill the X session. An .mp3 is opened in gxine. (I think gxine has a horrid UI, I use it as an opera plugin.)
In the right click menu I can choose between gxine or vlc or audacious. "Open With Other Application" > "Use as default for this kind of file" is an option too, but I rather have this information accessible in one conf file. Now is there one somewhere?

Yes, there were relevant files in ~/.local/share/applications/ I was staring right at them and didn't see. Anyway I don't understand them and their syntax well enough to edit them yet.
mimeinfo.cache
[MIME Cache]
application/x-wine-extension-ini=wine-extension-ini.desktop
image/gif=feh-usercreated-1.desktop
image/jpeg=feh-usercreated-1.desktop
application/x-wine-extension-hlp=wine-extension-hlp.desktop
image/png=feh-usercreated-1.desktop
application/x-wine-extension-scx=wine-extension-scx.desktop
text/html=wine-extension-htm.desktop;wine-extension-html.desktop;
text/plain=gvim-usercreated.desktop;wine-extension-txt.desktop;
application/rtf=wine-extension-rtf.desktop
application/x-chm=wine-extension-chm.desktop
application/xml=wine-extension-xml.desktop
text/x-scheme=wine-extension-scm.desktop
application/x-mswrite=wine-extension-wri.desktop
A lot of wine stuff and feh doesn't animate .gif
defaults.list
[Default Applications]
application/xml=gvim.desktop
audio/mpeg=vlc.desktop
video/x-flv=vlc.desktop
text/x-scheme=gvim-usercreated.desktop
application/x-shockwave-flash=opera.desktop;conkeror.desktop
video/x-ms-wmv=vlc.desktop
text/html=opera.desktop
This one looks better, but isn't it a bit short? (Neither opera or conkeror will actually play the .swf I know I have to fix that somewhere else.)
File type, as thunar shows it, seems to be another thing and the cmd "file" shows yet another type.
/etc/xdg/xfce4/helpers.rc are just 3 apps and I'm only using 2 since I don't use a mail app.

QuickTime file associations, TIFF in particular

I have a user who needs to open TIFF's in a certain program but QT keeps hijacking the file association in IE6 on Windows XP sp2. When he opens a TIFF file via IE6 or MS Word (impeded in IE6) it opens in QuickTime which can only view the 1st page of a TIFF (seriously apple?). This used to be a common problem and since no one could make QuickTime cooperate we would simply install eiStream Imaging for Windows (now Global360) and it would erase the file associations for TIFF in IE and instead present an option to save or open.
That's all changed now. I can install this other program it will take back the file associations that QuckTime keeps swiping, but immediately after the user reboots QuickTime has stolen them again.
The next step when the user is available will be going in to the registry and cleaning out HKEYCLASSESROOT\QuickTime\ but I have a feeling QT will rebuild at the next startup as this has been the trend.
I have disabled TIFF in the QT preferences yet the association remains, I have changed the file associations via Folder options>File Types yet the associations remain. I reinstall QT, now it won't leave the system tray, AND the file associations remain despite settings in QT pref. I remove QT startup with windows from the registry yet the instant a user opens QT it hijacks that back and is sitting in the SysTray after the next reboot.
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Try asking in the QT for Windows area vs. here as a start. Though IIRC QT for Windows has the ability to set or unselect the associations in the preferences.

QuickTime Updates Steal File Associations

Today, QuickTime wanted to install updates to itself ... so I clicked "Sure, go ahead". And then I noticed that files which had previously been associated with Winamp were now associated with QuickTime. In other words, QuyickTime hijacked my file associations!
So, I ran QuickTime, to find out where to report his antisocial behavior. And right off the bat, it asked me whether it would be OK for QuickTime to reclaim all of the file associations it wanted. A little bit late to be asking, I thought. I said no.
This forum seems to be the only place to tell anybody anything. So ... how do I prevent this? (Other than deleting QuickTime forever?) HOW do I complain to Apple so they can fix this bug?
Thanks.
HomeBuilt Windows XP Pro

I used this link for tiff http://www.nrl.navy.mil/content.php?P=IMAGES
QT was opening the tiff files. When going into the QT control panel Browser>Mime settings>Images-Still image files I was able to uncheck tiff, which held. I was also able to uncheck all the file types under File Types tab(Images-Still image files) in the QT control panel. However the preference would not hold. Went into Start>Set Program Access and Defaults that also was of no help.
The only way I was able to get QT to release the tiff's from the website I posted was to go into the Folder Options control panel for File Types and change the tif & tiff from QT picture viewer to windows picture and fax viewer.
So not sure why the QT control panel will not respond, there are other file types in the Folder options control panel on this computer other than tiff's that are still associated to QT, but didn't try changing them, perhaps that needs to be done?
Good post I didn't realize this before reading your post, if I come across anything further I'll post back.

Websites changing my file associating from Acrobat Pro to Reader

Once before everytime I clicked on a pdf, it would open with Reader. Even when I told it to open WITH Acrobat pro. The IT man came and changed my windows file association via the Control Settings, I restarted and the problem was resolved.
BUT now when I go to a website and use the snapshot tool to capture a map, when I try to open Acrobat Pro, it opens in Reader! I re-associated my settings in the control box but it reverts to Reader. What to do. I want to make a pdf of the image on the website.
Acro 7 Pro, XP

Go to the task listing and disable AcroRd32. Then also disable the loading of that plugin in the START menu. You are finding why Adobe does not recommend using both Acrobat and Reader on the same machine.

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