Hi
I am trying do script Windows Media Player as default video player for .WMV and .AVI files. As per default my users get a list of Multi Media programs they can choose from the first time they click on a video. I would like that choice to be made per default via script. It works fine with picture file types like .png, .jpeg and bmp. It seems like Windows Media Player plays by other rules.
This is the code I have at the moment:
REM *** SET Windows MediaPlayer as Default player for .WMV
REG DELETE "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.wmv" /f
REG DELETE "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.wmv" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.wmv" /v "Application" /t REG_SZ /d "wmplayer.exe" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.wmv\OpenWithList" /v "g" /t REG_SZ /d "wmplayer.exe" /f
assoc .wmv=WMP11.AssocFile.WMV
REM *** SET Windows MediaPlayer as Default player for .AVI
REG DELETE "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.avi" /f
REG DELETE "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.avi" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.avi" /v "Application" /t REG_SZ /d "wmplayer.exe" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.avi\OpenWithList" /v "g" /t REG_SZ /d "wmplayer.exe" /f
assoc .avi=WMP11.AssocFile.AVI
Any help to this issue will be very much apprec