(1) The relationship of one file to another based on the data it contains. (2) An established relationship between a file and the application used to open it. There are default file associations ...

Group Policy enables businesses to control and configure computer and user settings in an Active Directory environment. Administrators can use Group Policy Management Console to make changes to ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: With zero changes to my laptop, out of the blue of late, after opening several image files, all of which have ...

When you double-click on a file in Windows 8, Windows will automatically open that file using a program that has been associated with that file's extension. There may come a time, though, that you ...

I should have put this in my book I just learned two Windows command line utilities that I never knew existed: assoc and ftype. Both will display or modify the file association list, and are ...

One of the more frustrating things I experience in daily usage of my Mac is opening a file that launches an unexpected application, which can sometimes result in a failure to open the file. Joe is a ...

QUESTION: I installed a free office program called Open Office to test it on my Windows 98 machine. This has all the components that MS office has but is free. The problem is that it set itself up to ...

New version of iView Media Pro loses file associations, workaround Mark Byard reports that the new version of iView Media Pro has issues with losing file association -- a problem that is resolved by ...

Title pretty much says it all. I have a Terminal Server on which I need to change some file associations, but when I go to Tools --> Folder Options from an Explorer window the options to Change a file ...