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highstream:

--- Quote from: jpm on February 07, 2017, 03:23:04 pm ---yeah - Uncheck the repair file associations (item 23). Then it shouldn't touch them.

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This didn't turn out to be good advice or, at least, sufficiently good advice. Even with item 23 entirely unchecked, during the reboot after repair has been run, notice after notice have come up - more as I write this - saying an app caused problems and the app default has been reset (screenshot).  There were 50+ that had been reset.

highstream:
How can I keep the program from resetting *any* file associations, or at least come very close?

The last run seems to have resulted in the desktop icons coming back in Safe Mode and their responding to single click. It also got explore.exe to run quietly or idle as it should.  Now, the problem is normal mode, where the desktop icons are very slow - 30 secs to two mins or more - to open on one click, if they open at all short of two clicks, and explore.exe churns constantly at around 16-18%.  Is there anything to know about running the Tweaking repair in normal mode?

jpm:
what app is being reset?

highstream:
The notices don't say, but judging from what associations were changed to "Movies & TV" or "Groove Music," I'd say most likely Zoom Player Max, foobar2000 and maybe VLC player.

Julian:
alright so Shane has been investigating this and he fully explained this to me so what is going on is any time the registry is touched it does not matter if it is set back to default or modified MS has set the apps to restore settings to defaults. It's been frustrating me.   :teeth:

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