# Open with default options
**URL:** https://forums.suse.com/t/open-with-default-options/25083
**Category:** Chatting over the Back Fence
**Created:** [February 5, 2014, 11:33pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/open-with-default-options/25083 "2014-02-05T23:33:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2014, 11:33pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/open-with-default-options/25083/1 "2014-02-05T23:33:02Z")
Wondering if anyone knows how to set the default ‘option’ of the “Open
With” box to have this box UNchecked:
Always use the selected program to open this kind of file
By default in windows 7 this is checked. I have found docs online to
completely remove the checkbox or have it greyed out, but I would like
to have the option still there, just not checked by default.
We have had a couple different users somehow set all .exe’s on their
computer to open with something like adobe…sigh.
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Stevo
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2014, 8:32pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/open-with-default-options/25083/2 "2014-02-06T20:32:38Z")
Is this what you’re looking for?
[http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/193368-always-use-selected-program-always-checked-unchecked.html](http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/193368-always-use-selected-program-always-checked-unchecked.html)
Looks like you have to download a registry file, but you can look at
that before installing it, to make sure there’s nothing hinky in there.
: )
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Susan
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2014, 10:34pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/open-with-default-options/25083/3 "2014-02-06T22:34:01Z")
Susan sounds like they ‘said’:
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> Is this what you’re looking for?
>
> [http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/193368-always-use-selected-progra](http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/193368-always-use-selected-progra)
> m-always-checked-unchecked.html
>
> Looks like you have to download a registry file, but you can look at
> that before installing it, to make sure there’s nothing hinky in
> there.
>
> : )[/color]
So my response to Susan’s comment is…
That is what I’m looking for, but it looks like a dll needs downloading
as well as modifying the registry. That is not a deal breaker, mind
you, just something else to investigate. 🙂
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Stevo
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2014, 12:20am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/open-with-default-options/25083/4 "2014-02-07T00:20:16Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2014, 1:07am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/open-with-default-options/25083/5 "2014-02-07T01:07:36Z")
Here’s one where it looks like you can create your own DLL:
[http://blogs.msmvps.com/dmartin/blog/2011/09/12/how-to-display-the-open-with-dialog-box-with-the-always-associate-this-program-checkbox-unchecked-by-default/](http://blogs.msmvps.com/dmartin/blog/2011/09/12/how-to-display-the-open-with-dialog-box-with-the-always-associate-this-program-checkbox-unchecked-by-default/)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2014, 1:42am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/open-with-default-options/25083/6 "2014-02-07T01:42:37Z")
Susan sounds like they ‘said’:
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> Here’s one where it looks like you can create your own DLL:
>
> [http://blogs.msmvps.com/dmartin/blog/2011/09/12/how-to-display-the-ope](http://blogs.msmvps.com/dmartin/blog/2011/09/12/how-to-display-the-ope)
> n-with-dialog-box-with-the-always-associate-this-program-checkbox-unch
> ecked-by-default/[/color]
So my response to Susan’s comment is…
Thanks! I’ll look into that.
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Stevo