#99 Don't change my registry asociations

[Anonymous]

I would like an option in the GUI, so I could choose to
not change my registry settings of the file
asociations.

Everytime I run MediaInfo, it changes the associations
of a lot of files without my permission and it breaks
them. For example, the .dat file association, I don't
want it to be an "mpegfile" type. Let me decide it.

Besides this, the program is great.

Thanks a lot!

[Jerome Martinez]

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For me, this is a bug, this should not change (but yes, now,
I know this changes...)

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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This program completely ruined my file associations without
permission. I spent great effort in creating these and now
I will have to reinstall my entrire system to recover. This
is extremely dreadful design!

[Jerome Martinez]

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Your message is a little extremist : I create links where
there is no links created yet!
And they are easy to delete in the registry, this is only
one line per file extension.
So, if you spent great effort in creating file associations,
you should have a default name for extensions, so I don't
create names I will not delete later, so while uninstalling
MediaInfo delete all its entries.
if you spent great effort in creating file associations, 5
minutes to delete file associations will not be a lot.
Example : HKCR/.ac3 is mapped to "AC3File" (as Microsoft
does, ie .avi is by default mapped to avifile), delete
"AC3File" and all will be OK.
Please explain me what is the "ruin" of your work, because
as far as I know, I only create things where there are
nothing created...