File Association Manager for Windows version

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------- Additional comments from tanstaaflopenoffice.org Wed May 16 19:27:14 +0000 2007
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Repair did not work...

There is absolutely no reason why OOo should not be able to
manage these
associations after it is installed.

My problem apparently was caused by permissions problems on
the registry
settings. My argument is, if these can be fixed manually, by
changing the
permissions, there is no reason that an OOo FAM could not
*also* handle
permissions problems - again - as long as the User had Full
Admin Rights...

> When you install OOo on Windows you are usually
> doing this for all users. Then the setup application
> registers the file associations for all users.

Yes - all of which is exactly how the FAM would/should
work...

> The file association manager in OOo will not be able
to
> access these settings!

Eh? Why not? Oh - re-reading my original post, I didn't make
it clear that this
functionality would only be available if the user trying to
make use of it was
logged on with Admin Rights... this is obvious, so I didn't
specifically mention
it...

> Instead of this it will try to set something for the
current user.
> This will rather screw up things than fix them.

Not if they are logged on with Admin Rights - and again,
there is no reason that
 OOo couldn't simply detect this, and display a message
(that this functionality
requires being logged n as a User with Full Admin Rights) if
a User who does not
have full Admin Rights tries to access the FAM...

> A file association manager inside OOo does not make
sense at all and
> especially on Vista is a No-No.

It makes *perfect* sense, due to its nature (a full Office
Suite that has the
ability to take over File Associations of another Office
Suite) - even in Vista...

As I said - I do understand that this ability must be
limited to a User who is
logged in with Administrative Rights, and that changes
affect all users (just as
they do at install time).

Again, not *one* argument I have ever heard against having a
File Associations
Manager built into OOo makes any sense to me...

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