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WAssociate is FreeWare written for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 200 and XP. It manages the associations between file name extensions and file types stored in the Windows registry. These stored file types determine the appearance and actions supported for a file by Windows.
WAssociate is about being in control when double or right clicking a file, quickly editing context menus, associated commands and changing icons and descriptions. Control freaks have easy access to the Windows registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, and more...
A French version of the documentation of version 2.5 by Alain Lenoir and André Vaysse is available for reading or download.
WAssociate showing the registry for a text file.
If you are not reading this on the WAssociate web site then you can verify http://www.xs4all.nl/~wstudios/Associate/index.html for the latest online version of WAssociate. In these docs Windows 95,98 and ME will be referred to as 9x and Windows NT, 2000 and XP will be referred to as Windows NTx.
To use WAssociate effectively you need to have or develop a basic understanding of how Windows assigns properties to file name extensions through file types and classes. To get you started a short introduction will be given in these pages.
Goal of WAssociate is to give easy access to the Windows registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, because that's where associations are stored. Editing the registry can be tricky and is a topic for advanced users. If you don't know anything about the registry and its HKEY_CLASSES_STUFF, advance with care.
NTx users must have the proper rights to edit the registry to use WAssociate. If you are not sure you have the needed rights you can find out by starting RegEdit, create a key beneath HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and restart your workstation. If after the restart the created key is still there, you have enough rights and can delete it.
To install WAssociate simply download WAssociate.zip (375K) and extract this zip file to a folder of your choice, like C:\Program Files\WAssociate. The current version of WAssociate included in this zip is Also included you'll find all the pages from this site related to WAssociate. After you unzipped the archive, you can read this documentation by opening index.html.
To make WAssociate accessible from the 'Send to' context menu of Explorer, you can place a shortcut to WAssociate.exe in your SendTo folder (Like c:\windows\SendTo or on NTx the folder %userprofile%\SendTo).
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