AEN007 Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 17November2011Greetings.I recently decided to start using the "text" PerceivedType,so I could set the contextmenu in one place under SystemFileAssociations.I found out that XP will not treat .m3u nor .reg files as "text".XP will only treat m3u files as "audio".I guess there is something somewhere in the registry controlling that.I would like to know how to have XP implement any any PerceivedType entries I might make.Aren't users supposed to be able to assign any PercievedType option they want?Any helpful replies/insights appeciated.Thank you.Regards,AENÆ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 .reg may be hard coded, as similar issues have been found here. However, M3U files are not natively known to XP, but only get their initial association once a program that uses that type of file (ie Winamp) is installed. So it may be possible to add M3U to PerceivedType=text.It is also possible that .reg uses a GUID as its reference, but that's just a guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrofLuigi Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 As far as I remember, at least on XP, "PerceivedType" is used as a helper to MIME types, meaning it's primarily meant to be used in IE environment. For normal use in Windows Explorer, opening a file by extension, won't work every time, depending on various restrictions on things like MIME sniffing and other Feature controls on the computer in question.GL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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