I honestly think you need to format or repair your windows installation even on clean install in vmware I have 101 entries in shellmenuview in windows 7 pro. You only have 15
why do i need to install in vmware mode??? is this a virtual program where I can run other os without installing the os over any running os?
Who said anything about you installing vmware If you read what I said I have clean windows 7 installation on a virtual machine I ran shellmenuview and it showed 101 entries, I use Vmare for testing applications e.c.t. I also use it to run xp and other os systems. Yes there are various virtual programs vmware, you need to pay for. Ms virtual pc and VirtualBox are free yes you can install other os systems.
mm... okay, still dont know why i have 15 entries. what could i be doing wrong?--> could it be i use msconfig to stop some programs running?
No I honestly think it is because you have been editing the registry, stopping programs running from windows startup does not remove file associations from registry.
You are using the wrong program... you are supposed to use 'ShellMenuView' NOT 'ShellMenuNew' oh man...
What do you think you should do seem obvious to me select description find note pad and remove entries for .lic files.
Sorry for butting in but from this post , it looks as his only objective is to rename a file extension, which should have nothing to do with file associations. XP automatically allowed you to rename the extension, but Vista and 7 you must first move the cursor to the end and backspace/remove it first.
i see what you mean but.... im using w7u when you right click and rename the extension: license.lic-----> lincense.dat you are not really renaming the file extension but rather the name of the file cause when you right click on the file license.lic and hit properties when you will see thea the type of file : .lic so I didnt rename the extension and just the name of the file.
You right click to rename and now it is flashing blue , ready to rename. Now left click to the right side of the extension. The cursor should be flashing at the right side of the extension. Backspace out the extension, if you remove the dot you will have to re-add it with the new extension.
yes but if I do this, the file type is still showing as type LIC file. should it had change to whatever extension i rename it?
You should know yourself what you want to do... this program is straightforward. But im still nto sure what you really want to do... can you please do a few pictures of what you want to do? You seem to want to remove from 'OpenWithList' but you also seem to fail for i dunno what reason, so post some screenshots of what you want to do, you explain to vague :\
here: I'm trying to rename the license file to license (but with extension .dat) i could simply rename the file license to lincense.dat but this would not change the file extension to .dat I can check if the file extension is change by going to the properties of the file which im working on and the file type says: .LIC and not .dat like i need it to be.
The properties menu reads the extension to determine the file type.It seems that you are not really changing the extension. Do you have the folder options set to show file extensions for known file types?