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With the release of Windows 11, Microsoft has once again made things more difficult for its users by removing the ability to assign file extensions to a program by category (as in Windows 10), instead requiring the user to manually go through every file extension a program is capable of opening and select that program as the default.

Windows 10 - This is good.


Windows 11 - This is not good.
(before)


(after)


What I'm suggesting is the reintroduction of the "File extensions association" / "Set up associations..." button, akin to what was available for Windows Vista thru 8, as seen here: https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_HowTo/Mak ... .2C_7.2C_8

However, I suspect implementing this feature on Windows 11 would require editing the registry or similar, as the "Set Program Associations" menu with the convenient "Select All" radio (presumably) no longer exists.

EDIT: I should mention: the "assign file extensions" option in the VLC installer assigns *some* file extensions, but not all - as can be seen in the second image above.

Which file extensions are missing that are not assigned by the installer? It should contain all extensions VLC can handle, if its lacking some its probably a bug/someone forgot to add them.

I am not sure it would be possible to have this in VLC itself, there is no official API for that offered by Microsoft, the installer "cheats" with a lot of registry magic.