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I select a file, then right-click, choose Open With from the menu options, and the Desigen Pro installation window warning comes up, reslting in me being asked if I want to Repair or Remove the prgramme. It's a bit irritating, as I use this method for opening files quite often. Can anyone advise as to what's wrong? I re-installed DP7, bot issue persists.
Thanks for any pointers.
I am wondering if, somehow, your system has the wrong options set so that, instead of 'opening with', it is actually 'running' which would kick off the installation program - it's worth checking that out
The reason is that the .xar files have been associated with: Xara_Designer_Pro_7_en-GB_setup.exe
instead of with: DesignerPro.exe
I'm sure you can fix this by right clicking on any .xar file and then selecting 'Open with...'
Then click on 'Choose program...'
Select Xara Designer and make sure you put a rick in the box that says 'Always use the selected program to open this type of file.'
Below is how you do this in Windows XP, but Windows 7 is not that different!
thanks Rik :)
Ah, many thanks for the replies. I think the issue is that I was trying to use Open With to open JPEGS, but this appears not to work. Designer Pro 7 is not offered as an option. Maybe that's how it's meant to be?
I noticed when trying to sort this that Designer Pro does not appear on in the list of applications available through Control Panel>Set Default Programs, so it can't be set as a default at all. Obviously, it is the default for DP7 files, but cannot be used to open any others. I suspect I'm being obtuse, but other apps are offered in this list.
you should be able to set designer to open jpgs - at least you can in XP - which windows are you using?
some info:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/w...ses-by-default
it includes what to do if the program is not on the list...
Again, thanks for the responses.
I am using Windows 7 (32 bit).
I looked up the MS page and did what it said. However, when I selected Change, DP7 was not there as an option in the Open With dialogue box to enable me to associate it with JPEGS, so could not do so. The option for JPEGS remains as Windows Photo Viewer. As I say, DP7 is not showing up as an application anywhere except in the Programs menu and the Control Panel>Uninstall Programs menu.
so 'other programs' or 'browse' did not find it?
I can't claim to be an expert on win 7 as I don't personally use it - the only win 7 computer we have does not have any xara software installed - maybe someone else can help further
browse at least should enable you to go to the program folder and the .exe file
When in explorer, you select a jpeg, right click => open with, then beneath you'll find "select standard program" or "select default program" or something like that (my windows is a dutch version so I'm translating). Click that and you get recommended programs, but you also have a browse button, through which you can look for Xara. If you then tick "open this type of file always with this program", you should be ok. Similar procedures are to be used for any type of file you want to open with Xara (or with another program)
yes - thats more or less how I would do it in XP
Thanks, but have tried this, and it doesn't work. The Open With dialogue window which opens up does not have DP7 listed in it, in either screen, and using Browse to select the DesignerPro 7.exe file does not achieve anything either. No idea what to do, as Xara had also responded to my query with what you have suggested here.Quote:
Originally Posted by guyke
using the browse button can you not navigate [drill down] to the .exe file in the xara program folder?
Yes, but selecting that achieves nothing, nothing alters.Quote:
Originally Posted by handrawn
What I mean to say is that I should expect that Designer Pro would then show up in the Open With dialogue window as an available program; it does not. It's almost like it's a 'hidden' application. The.exe file is in the correct place, the program functions if I start it from the task bar, and it appears in the Program menu. However, it does not show in the Open With dialogue window, nor does it appear in this window if I access it through the Make a File Type...Applications, and select Change. Stumped!Quote:
Originally Posted by AlterEgo
ok - in windows XP I would go windows explorer and from menu bar: tools> folder options > file types and then 'force' the change there - not sure how to do that on windows 7, maybe someone will jump in, if not I will get back asap
When you browse to the designer pro 7 folder, there are two program icons one is for the main program the other is for the set up make sure have NOT clicked the set up.exe
It should start DP7, not change the list of available programs right away.Quote:
Originally Posted by AlterEgo
I looked through the windows 7 help files, and the explanation I gave earlier is all they come up with.
When at the Choose Program dialog box, selecting Browse, navigating to the folder with the appropriate .exe file, and selecting said .exe file should cause the application icon to show up on the list displayed in the dialog box (at which point you should be able to select it and hit OK to open the file with the selected app). If it does not, there's an issue with Windows itself (make sure you are logged in with Admin rights, for example).
-- Ben
Hi AlterEgo.
You should be able to do this.
In your last post #13
If you click on the 'Browse' button, when the next 'Open with' window opens,
navigate to the C Drive and then open the 'Program Files' folder. (see pic)
Go down and find the 'Xara' folder, then go to the 'Xara_Designer_Pro_7' folder and click on it.
Now, in the right window, find the file named 'DesignerPro.exe (see pic)
Click on this file to select it and click on the 'Open' button. Then click the 'OK' button.
This should fix your problem.
I really appreciate all the effort that has been expended to help me solve this issue. However, what you have just described I have done over and over, always in the vain hope that, somehow, DP7 would then make itself visible; it does not. I know it should, and it defies logic, but it still does not appear in the list of available programs for me to choose. Even after having carried out the steps above on all these occasions, DP7 does not make itself available. After doing what is described, then rebooting, I checked to see if it was because a different application is the default for JPEGs (although I realise that DP7 should still be a vailable to Open With); Windows Photo Viewer is the default, so I clicked Change. That takes me back to the Open With, and... no DP7. If I do click on the DesignerPro.exe file, I get Windows Photo Viewer opening with the JPEG I am trying to open in DP7. Anyway, thank you all very much. Maybe I'll just have to open DP7 and Import. Takes longer, but it seems I'm destined to fail on this one, and it might take a total reinstall of the system to cure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rik
I had a similar problem when I also had 6 installed, and try as I might I couldn't get 7.1 to show or if it did it would still open with 6, since I bought a new computer I have only installed ver 7 and now I get 7.1 to show up in the open with window, and it works.
The method Rik shows definitely works. When you go to the Xara folder and select Designer 7 there is more than one icon. One is a setup icon, it's the other one (.exe) that you want.
EDIT: I don't understand why your jpg opens windows photo viewer. I have Irfanview as my default viewer and that causes no problems. Oh yeah, when you do get it to show it will be 7.1 at least mine is. My icon name is DesignerPro
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Sorted!!! Second re-installation of DP7, after having Searched for and deleted any stray DP7 folders/files on HDD, and I am now happy. Many thanks for all the help offered.