Re: Why is Dia not mapped to .dia-extension in Windows?

[christian ridderstrom gmail com]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Steffen Macke wrote:

> > My installation of Dia 0.95-1 did not map itself to the extension .dia,
> > nor did it do so on another Windows machine I installed it to.

> Are you using the same user account for running dia as for the 
> installation? Does this user have administrator rights?

Yes and yes. The system is Windows XP, SP2.

> The Windows operating system makes it very easy for you to recover lost 
> file associations. Just use "Open With" from the Explorer context menu, 
> choose dia and check "Always use this program..."

I've tried this and it doesn't help... ???  Is there some registry setting 
I can check to see.

Oh, the icon shown for .dia-files doesn't seem to be Dia specific either. 

Any ideas on how to trouble shoot it further?

/Christian

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