{"id":20,"date":"2007-07-18T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10265\/?p=20"},"modified":"2007-07-18T08:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T08:20:00","slug":"opening-up-a-custom-file-extension-using-a-given-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mehdi.biz\/blog\/2007\/07\/18\/opening-up-a-custom-file-extension-using-a-given-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening-up a custom file extension using a given program!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>Hi folks,<br \/>\nTo open-up a given custom file extension (.wow for instance) using a given application (say wowViewer.exe) , you need to alter the registry entries (Please make sure that you\u2019ve got a backup before editing the registry) as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add a new registry key under <strong>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.wow<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Set the default value of the above entry to <strong>wowFiles<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Add a new registry key under <strong>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTwowFilesShellOpenCommand<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Set the default value of the above entry to <strong>wowViewer.exe &#8220;%1&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That\u2019s all it takes to open-up a custom file extension using a given application.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi folks,<br \/> To open-up a given custom file extension (.wow for instance) using a given application (say wowViewer.exe) , you need to alter the registry entries (Please make sure that you\u2019ve got a backup before editing the registry) as follows:<\/p>\n<p> Add a new registry key under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.wow Set the default value of the above [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mehdi.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mehdi.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mehdi.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mehdi.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mehdi.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mehdi.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mehdi.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mehdi.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mehdi.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}