FTYPE reports wrong executable file
Posted: 2022-Oct-31, 8:41 am
If I do;
assoc .avi
I get;
.avi=avifile
And when I do;
ftype avifile
I get;
"C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" /prefetch:8 /Open "%L"
(yes, it's an old version of windows)
However, AVI files do not open in Windows Media Player. They open in Media Player Classic - Home Cinema, just like MP4, MKV, etc. Those all show the correct association, but AVI doesn't.
Why does FTYPE show the wrong executable file for AVI files? I mean, this information must be somewhere in Windows, probably in the registry, so are there two lists of associations? One that FTYPE looks at and the real one that Windows uses when you double-click a file?
assoc .avi
I get;
.avi=avifile
And when I do;
ftype avifile
I get;
"C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" /prefetch:8 /Open "%L"
(yes, it's an old version of windows)
However, AVI files do not open in Windows Media Player. They open in Media Player Classic - Home Cinema, just like MP4, MKV, etc. Those all show the correct association, but AVI doesn't.
Why does FTYPE show the wrong executable file for AVI files? I mean, this information must be somewhere in Windows, probably in the registry, so are there two lists of associations? One that FTYPE looks at and the real one that Windows uses when you double-click a file?