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Associating *.slddrw to open with edrawings as default when dblclkd?

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borsht (Mechanical)

5 Apr 12 9:49

I used to have it set in windows 7 to double click a Solidworks drawing and it would autmatically open in edrawings instead of solidworks. It makes it a lot quicker to check simple stuff. Since I just "upgraded" to 2012 I havent been able to make this association again. In explorer I right click the drawing file, open with...,choose default program..browse to C:\Program Files\SolidWorks Corp\SolidWorks eDrawings (2)\, left click on "eDrawingsOfficeAutomater.exe", left click on the open button, check the box that says "always use the selected program to open this kind of file", left click on ok. So then Solidworks starts up and cranks and opens the file.
Does any one have any tip on fixing this for me?
Thanks

SW2011, HP Z400 Workstation
Intel xeon w3580@3.33GHz,Win7 pro 64bit
Quardro FX1800

kellnerp (Mechanical)

5 Apr 12 14:37

If you can document it as a bug that causes Windows to not operate in a normal manner you might pursue the VAR route. SW has historically messed with file associations.

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ctopher (Mechanical)

5 Apr 12 15:15

Did you reboot after making the changes, without starting SW?

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EEnd (Mechanical)

5 Apr 12 15:23

Try associating it with EModelViewer.exe instead.

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borsht (Mechanical)

22 Jun 12 11:24

I've tried both emodeviewer and the automater, and both work in the same manner...Defaults to Solidworks. On the other Computers here it lets them change it, and save it as the default. one thing that is different from the others is that when I click the "open with", then "choose default Program", the Open with Dialoge box opens with Recommended Programs at the top, and on the bottom the "other Programs" has nothing in it. I click the down arrow and 12 choices come up: Adobe, MO Word,MO picture manager, MO visual studio..., paint, windows photo gallery, windowews media player, wordpad, photo viewer, media center, live movie maker, and notepad.

Any more Ideas out there would be appreciated. The VAR had no solution.

SW2012, HP Z400 Workstation
Intel xeon w3580@3.33GHz,Win7 pro 64bit
Quardro FX1800

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