PowerDesk 4 doesn't use Explorer's "Open With" context menu. 1

[anabavi]

Hi, all.

I installed PowerDesk 4 on my Win2000 workstation and I love it except I frequently like to access the "Open With" context menu option with Explorer. PowerDesk shows "Open With" on the context menu when I right-click on a file but when I click on "Open With" it just shows me another cascaded menu labelled "Open With". Get it? Two "Open With" options in a row with no program entries. With Explorer, even after installing PowerDesk, I right-click a file, mouse-over "Open With" and see a list of programs I have used to open the file.

I searched for "Open With" in the registry and found about five entries but I had no idea what to do with them as none referenced PowerDesk at all and I was afraid to screw with it since it still functions properly in Explorer.

Thanks for reading!

 

[kelsen]

This happened to me when I was using Win98SE, so it is not an OS-specific problem. Upon contacting the company (easy to do from within PowerDesk, btw) I got an email back reporting that this was a known problem and was being worked on.

When I went to W2KPro and reinstalled PowerDesk 4 Pro, the problem went away. I do not know what caused it in the first place, but it could return - I have used PowerDesk for years, and this annoying problem on;y evinced itself during the last two months or so I used Win98SE, after working fine on that same OS for considerable time.

RFT!!!
Dave Kelsen.
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