Tag: Open
Continuing to Fight with Ichitaro
by claym on Mar.09, 2010, under Computers and Programming
Continuing along with my last post about trying to get Ichitaro to work I was really happy when AppLocale allowed me to use the application. But I noticed a new annoyance. Though I could manually start the application just fine, this doesn’t make sense for a document viewer. Most of the time you want to just double click the document and have it open, you don’t want to open the viewer, File -> Open and browse to the file you want to view. Though AppLocale will allow you create a desktop shortcut to open the program, it can ONLY be called on programs. I needed to find a way to make it behave slightly more normally.
After searching through the registry for a while I found the key responsible for the open command used for TaroView Documents. I’ll copy paste the relevant key below. Note, this requires that you have AppLocale and the Ichitaro Viewer installed in their default locations and this key was exported on Windows 7 professional. Modifying the registry is potentially dangerous and I take no responsibility for the results of choosing to modify your own registry. It will still nag you telling you that this is a “temporary” solution, but you can find a patched version of AppLoc.exe if you really want to get rid of that.
Below is the exported key that solved my problems. It will open anything that is registered as a TaroViewDocument to open through the AppLocale’d version instead of the default one. I hope this helps someone else who was as frustrated as I was:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TaroViewDocumentFile\Shell\Open\command]@="\"C:\\Windows\\AppPatch\\AppLoc.exe\" \"C:\\Program Files\\JustSystems\\TaroView\\TAROVIEW.EXE\" \"%1\" \"/L0411\" "
