Show or Hide "Open With" Program Checkbox (All Windows)

This setting allows you to control whether the checkbox to save the "Open With" program is available when an unknown file type is opened.

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Open your registry and find the key below.

To disable the check box change the value of "(Default)" to "rundll32.exe shell32.dll,OpenAs_RunDLL %1 %2".

To enable the checkbox change the value to "rundll32.exe shell32.dll,OpenAs_RunDLL %1".

Return to the desktop and press F5 for the change to take effect.

		(Default)	REG_SZ	rundll32.exe shell32.dll,OpenAs_RunDLL %1

	HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Unknown\shell\openas\command

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