Preventing Changes to File Associations

April 25, 2009

You can prevent users from changing associations via Windows Explorer's Tools / Folder Options / File Types tab.

  1. Start Regedit
  2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explore
  3. Create REG_DWORD data type NoFileAssociate
  4. Give it a value of 1

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