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I use the "Open with..." command in the Windows right-click context menu all the time to open .jpg and other image files in Photoshop. I don't want to directly associate .jpgs, etc, to Photoshop because most of the time I just want to view them quickly in Windows Photo Viewer. But every once in a while, I need to open one in PS, so I had been using the "Open with..." menu command. This worked fine in every version of CS that I've ever used.
Until, all of a sudden, when I installed CS5.5, "Open with..." no longer works. Right-clicking on a .jpg, for instance, doesn't even show Photoshop as a valid option for an application in which to open the file (not in the "Recommended Programs" list or even the "Other Programs" list). So I have to go and browse for an "Additional Program". I'm using Windows 7 64-bit, but whether I choose the photoshop.exe in Program Files or Program Files (x86), the jpg still just opens in the default application (Windows Photo Viewer).
Same for PDFs (opening in either Photoshop or Illustrator).
PSDs open fine, directly, when I double-click the file.
This really seems like a CS issue, since "Open with" still works fine for other non-Adobe applications.
How can I get my "Open with" menu to "see" Photoshop again as a valid option and pass the filename correctly so that it actually opens the file?
Anybody have any ideas?
Thanks much!

Nope. I'd done that many many times, and it never "stuck". No matter how many times I browsed for the exe, whether I checked "Always use the selected program..." or not, the jpg still opened in Photo Viewer.
Turns out, this thread showed up on the "More like this" widget in the righthand of these forums when I had submitted my post, and that answered my question. Why the thread never showed up when I was actually searching for an answer, I'll never know.
As per that thread, you have to go in and manually set/update the registry key
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\Photoshop.exe\shell\open\command
to point to the path of the most recent Photoshop (in my case, C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 (64 Bit)\Photoshop.exe). I guess this is something that the CS5.5 installer fails to do under certain circumstances. It was still pointing to the path of my CS5, which was no longer valid.

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