## Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Administrator's Companion by Sharon Crawford & Charlie Russel copyright (c) 2000 by Microsoft Corporation all rights reserved

Home Articles Utilities Software Electronic Book |  | New Open With Functionality The Windows Explorer in Windows 2000 has been greatly enhanced in lots of "small yet powerful" ways. For example, you can right click on any file and select Open With... (even if the file has a default program to open that is configured for the file's extension). You are prompted with a list of known applications from the system registry. You can pick one of these or browse to your own executable. Explorer remembers this application and it will be presented in the context menu for quick activation in the future. It's really useful if for example you use multiple image-editing programs such as Paint Shop Pro, MS PhotoDraw, MS Paint, etc. You can open right click any graphic file and select which program to use to open it. (Or just double-click the file to use the default program.)