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"Open With" menu - Change the program names?
One of our users has Office 2003 and Office 2007 installed. He wanted his Excel 2003 to be the default Excel program when he opened Excel documents, so I found an article explaining the registry modification to allow 2003 to be default. However, he occasionally opens up 2007 Excel files and would like to simply right click on them, and choose "open with" and choose Excel 2007. The problem is, when he right clicks and does the "open with" command, there are two "Microsoft Office Excel" options, and they aren't descriptive enough to give their version names. I have to believe there is a way to add the "2003" or "2007" to these names, but I can't figure it out. We do know that the first Excel shortcut is the 2007 one, and he can remember that, but it would be nice to append the version to the shortcut names. Any ideas? By the way, he is running XP Pro version of Windows.
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Masqueraid, Under the "OpenWithList" folder in the registry, all I see is a (Default) REG_SZ with no data in it. Could there be another place where I edit the name?
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Thanks for the information. At this point, he knows which Excel is 2007 and which is 2003, and since he is the only one with this "problem", I am just going to leave it alone as I don't want to get too far into something I don't understand. Thanks!
After rebooting check whether this applies to 2003 or 2007 then edit both entries appropriately