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I do use an account with full privileges and I do not have any relevant system policies.
FWIW, I returned to the fray today, and found that EmEditor had appeared as a possible “recommended” option in Windows Association Manager, but only for a couple of php? extensions (php2, php3, ….). When I tried to use the Windows Association Manager to associate .bat files (which don’t have a default association under W7) with EmEditor, however, I saw the same behavior I described before. EmEditor did not appear on the list of options (“preferred” or “other”), and browsing to the executable within the dialog and “Opening” it did not establish the association. I am a long-time EmEditor user, and I have not had this sort of problem with prior versions (<= 9.x).
Later….The problem with not being able to associate file types within EmEditor goes away if you “run it as administrator”, which does actually make sense, and may have been true before, but it would be nice if EmEditor warned you about that if you try to do it when running it as a regular user, rather than just failing silently. The problem doing it with Windows Association Manager persists.
I am using the latest RC, BTW.
There appears to be a problem with the file association functionality in (at least) the 64 bit edition of the current RC under Windows 7. I have only just downloaded and installed the beta/RC, so I do not know whether the issue is new or just previously unreported.
After installing the program and opening (e.g.) a php file, I go to Tools|Properties for Current configuration. The tab that opens gives “Associated Extensions” as PHP and PHP3. However, clicking on files with these extensions in Explorer does not open them in EmEditor. Returning to the same tab in EmEditor and pressing the ‘Associate with EmEditor’ button pops up a UAC dialog, to which I respond appropriately, and I then see a new dialog box, showing only a txt association. Deleting this and adding appropriate php associations still does not affect Explorer’s behavior.
Even more strangely, Windows own File Association manager will not allow me to add the necessary associations. EmEditor is not shown as an option in the normal dialog (even by expanding ‘Other Programs”) and navigating the dialog to the program folder and ‘Opening’ EmEditor.exe neither associates it nor adds EmEditor to the available options.
Help!!
