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2. Re: Changing default program in Windows 7
JWH-NIRC Aug 24, 2010 12:18 AM (in response to BobLevine)Is there no way to fix this in Windows without purchasing a new program? It seems to me that Adobe has blocked out what is otherwise an ordinary Windows option. I cannot imagine why they would want to do that?
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3. Re: Changing default program in Windows 7
Stix Hart Aug 24, 2010 3:29 AM (in response to JWH-NIRC)Disclaimer: I use XP, not 7. Having said that I've played around with this a fair bit and the underlying principles are the same. I'm sure Adobe haven't intentionally taken away any capability here, there would've been a very noisy reaction if that was the case. As to why it worked in CS2 & 3, perhaps you were just lucky, the way Windows handles different Indesign versions is pretty fragile, the order you changed settings then must just have worked somehow.
This probably won't help a lot, but what I found in XP when I installed CS5 after CS3 is that initially I got the option to right click a file and choose CS3 or 5. It was also easy enough to change the association of .indd files to CS3 but once I'd done that there was no way back.
So I'm not sure why you can't make a simple change like that in 7, unless you have already made some other change already, which seems to break it. If you suspect you might have done that a reinstall of CS5 should fix it. And be aware that if you do manage to do it, when you want to change back to having CS5 as the default you'll probably have to do another install of CS5.
Annoying, but that is the way it's designed and it's not likely to change soon. It seems the file handling preferences aren't given much priority at all, and when you're working on only a few files a day that would be fine, but for those of us working on waaay more than that it's disappointing.
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4. Re: Changing default program in Windows 7
BobLevine Aug 24, 2010 5:16 AM (in response to JWH-NIRC)Great...another conspiracy theory.
Bob



