Re: [MiKTeX] DVI file type association

[Siep K. <si...@cy...>]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 08:55:22AM -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
> I just upgraded 3 computers (XP pro) from miktex 2.5 to 2.6.  After the 
> upgrade, one of the users on one of the computers was not able to 
> associate yap with the DVI file type.  I finally traced the problem to 
> the permissions on the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dvi registry key.  It turned 
> out that non-administrators did not have permission to read this key.  I 
> changed the permissions and everything worked fine.  I'm passing this on 
> in case anyone else has a similar problem.

File associations can also be defined in HKCU\software\classes. In
fact, HKCR combines the info of HKCU\software\classes and
HKLM\software\classes. Normally, users have write access to keys in
HKCU.

A drawback is that in certain setups keys in HKCU\software\classes
may get lost upon logout so you would have to recreate them at each
login, e.g. by a script in start\programs\startup.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg