ACDSee does just that. I used it until it recently started to behave badly:
takes about 99.99% of the cpu time for ever....

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Regards,
Sander


Nieminen Juha <war### [at] punarastascstutfi> schreef in berichtnieuws
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> Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
> : I tried Irfanview maybe three years ago - a demo from a shareware CD I
> : had purchased. It infuriated me that when I installed it the setup
> : program over wrote all of my image file associations in the windows
> : registry. It took me forever to get my system straightened out after
> : that.
>
>   This is a very common and extremely annoying problem with windows
programs.
> They steal all the associations they want without asking, thus causing
> lots of problems to the user.
>   There are few exceptions. I remember a program that didn't only ask if I
> wanted to reassociate the file type it knew, but it also allowed me to
choose
> which file types to reassociate and which don't. All programs should be
like
> this.
>   If Microsoft wanted to develop windows, they could add an option like
> "Ask before allowing new software to reassociate file types".
>
> --
> main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
> ):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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