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Sorry, I can't do that. I *can* provide advice and insight, but that's about as far as I can go.

It should be pretty easy for anyone to wire this up.

Since VLC is never guaranteed to be admin, the current file association dialogs don't always work - especially on Vista and Windows 7 due to UAC. It might be good to pop an error when the file association code gets access denied, or when the user is not an admin? It would also be easily possible for...

OK, and what's registered under:
* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\RegisteredApplications
?

My settings rely on a couple other minor aspects of registration that should already be handled by the VLC installer - how was VLC installed on your system? What are the subvalues under:
* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Clients\Media\VLC\Capabilities
on your system?

Clearly the player could use a minor overhaul (it writes some HKLM/HKCR keys from the app, which is bad since only the installer should have/require admin privileges) as far as more/actual Vista compatibility, but the above registry keys don't actually require you to check if you're on Vista - they ...

Here's the basic registry settings required: * http://zachd.com/pss/hacks/VLCforSUD.zip That's a pretty simple registry file showing the basics of what to do for VLC. I tried this and it worked perfectly. A friend pointed me here and I figured I'd fill in the gap. That plugs you in to the Default Pr...