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Ran Windows Media Player; it took my file associations—how to restore?

Stupidly, I had a look at Windows Media Player (its there!!) and now all of my files have the WMP icon instead of the Foobar "skull".
I seem to remember doing this a long time ago when I first used Foobar.

For the life of me I cannot find how to do this.
Help please.

Cheers

Ran Windows Media Player; it took my file associations—how to restore?

Reply #1 –
You don't mention your operating system.

Does the WIKI help?

EDIT: older foobar2000 versions had the File Types configuration as a root entry in the Preferences.
This is HA. Not the Jerry Springer Show.

Ran Windows Media Player; it took my file associations—how to restore?

Reply #2 –
Thanks,

This function seems to have disappeared from Foobar, candidly, I dont really know if that is true but I certainly couldn't find it.

I scrabbled about in  the net and found that for Window 7 the following is recommended:
Start-->Default Programmes-->Associate a File Type or Protocol with a Programme.

This seemed to do the trick!!

Cheers
 

Ran Windows Media Player; it took my file associations—how to restore?

Reply #3 –
The correct location is now under Preferences -> Shell Integration. Also, you need to use the Default Programs applet to ban Windows Media Player completely from taking over whenever it is launched.