Solved Open with fails to open

bonky said:

Hi all

Im using windows 11 - 25H2

I have an issue with associating file types

so what I do is

right click (for an example) on a .docx and left click on "Choose and App"

as soon as I "Choose and App" (im expecting the "Select an app to open this .docx file") the dialogue box pops up and then promptly disappears

I went to the default apps and tried to do the same and the dialogue box pops up and promptly disappears also as the right click...

anyone come up with this issue before?

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x509 said:

I have opened and closed a program several time, let's say Outlook, I can't get outlook to start again, even if I double-click on Outlook.exe in the MS Office folder. If I reboot my system, the problem goes away.

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bonky said:

Hi all

Im using windows 11 - 25H2

I have an issue with associating file types

so what I do is

right click (for an example) on a .docx and left click on "Choose and App"

as soon as I "Choose and App" (im expecting the "Select an app to open this .docx file") the dialogue box pops up and then promptly disappears

I went to the default apps and tried to do the same and the dialogue box pops up and promptly disappears also as the right click...

anyone come up with this issue before?

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@echo off

echo.
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
timeout 2 /nobreak>nul
echo.

DEL /F /Q /A %LocalAppData%\IconCache.db
DEL /F /S /Q /A %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\iconcache_*.db
DEL /F /S /Q /A %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\thumbcache_*.db

timeout 2 /nobreak>nul
start explorer.exe

dacrone said:

try clearing icon cache to see if that fixes it. save this as a .bat and run it

Code:

@echo off

echo.
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
timeout 2 /nobreak>nul
echo.

DEL /F /Q /A %LocalAppData%\IconCache.db
DEL /F /S /Q /A %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\iconcache_*.db
DEL /F /S /Q /A %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\thumbcache_*.db

timeout 2 /nobreak>nul
start explorer.exe

you can also use nirsoft's openwithview to see all entries that are there. maybe a corrupt one is causing the issue:

OpenWithView - Disable/Enable items in the 'Open With' dialog-box of Windows

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dacrone said:

did you use openwithview to see all the entries?

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dacrone said:

post a screen shot of what all is listed there

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