file associations and maxthon

[rikgale]

Hi I am looking for a little help with a problem I'm experincing after taking the plunge and removing I.E. from my XP install. (I've kept the core) I'm using Maxthon to replace I.E. and I followed Parthapml's guide to do this. I had half followed the guide without knowing it existed, but I have since added the .inf file to my install.

My problem is that whenever I click on an internet shortcut I get this error msg

I follow its advice and go into the change folder options to try and change it so that the shortcut open with Maxthon, but the options to change are blanked out.

How can I create it so that Maxthon will automacally open internet shortcuts. I've had a search about but not come up with anything that helped.

Any help appreciated

Cheers Rik

[rikgale]

Ok I think that I fixed it. After a bit more fiddling and playing about (working on the theory its a test machine install and therefore ment to be broken to learn) I played about under the advance button a bit more. And each of the URL's has an 'open' command when you click on the Advanced button. However when you try abd edit this nothing happens, so I deleted it and created a new one with it linked to maxthon.

I then did a regedit seacrh for "maxthon" and came across the following entry

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\HTTP\shell\open\command]
@="\"\\Program Files\\Maxthon\\Maxthon.exe \" %1"

After a bit of looking about in the regitery I tried adding a link to Maxthon with the ftp short cut in Folder Options and a similar entry occured in the [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FTP\shell\open\command] reg entry, so all I have to do it link all the types of short cut that were once listed to Maxthon and then export the reg enties that are created and add them to my install.

Will report back on my sucess or failure later on

[rikgale]

It half worked, it opens the link in Maxthon and then throws an error along the lines of "Can't find www.whatevertheheckyouwerelookingfor.com, please use The Search fucntion in the start menu to find it" or something similar. I'm gonna try Prathampl's guide again, and follow it from the beginning this time.