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MVP

Aug 23, 2019

FTA "Open with ProgID" settings not captured

Example Application "Opera" (the browser). The installer of this application sets a file type association "Open with Progid" entry and appropriate registry settings in RegisteredApplications su...

jvintzel

Former Employee

Sep 06, 2019

Tim Mangan Thanks for reporting the issue. We will look into the problem. Were you able to file a feedback hub item from the device capture that had the issue?

John.

James Pike

Microsoft

Sep 11, 2019

Hey folks,

The packaging tool currently only captures machine wide FTA state. Ie. associations made under HKLM.

Opera by default appears to be setting the association in the user scope.

We plan to expand this detection in future updates to the tool. For now, you may be able to work around such issues by toggling the option (available in many apps) to do the association for all users or machine scope during install or first launch while monitoring is ongoing.

Thanks!
James

Dan Gough
Brass Contributor
Feb 07, 2020
James Pike VSCode sets FTAs via 'Open with ProgID' under HKLM, but they are not detected either.

It wouldn't be too hard to write a script to convert the 'Open with ProgID' values to default ProgIDs, I may do this as a temporary workaround until the MSIX Packaging Tool is updated to fix this. 🙂
- Chacon
  Microsoft
  Feb 26, 2020
  Hi Dan Gough,
  
  Can you give us some more info to help us investigate this?
  
  What specific FTAs are you seeing not being detected?
  
  What version of the MSIX Packaging Tool are you using?
  
  Which options are you selecting when installing VS Code?
  
  Thanks!
  
  Luis
- James Pike
  Microsoft
  Feb 18, 2020
  Dan Gough
  
  Thanks for pointing this out. We will take a look at this behavior.
  
  Thanks!
  James