cm_Associate issues

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For the very first time I have used cm_Associate, in order to associate pdf files with FoxitReader (I'm very keen with associations in Windows).

Some observations:

1. TC uses DOS names... :bleah:.
Upon further investigations this is not entirely TC's fault. It happened because the following reg key (I think FoxitReader adds it):

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[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\FOXITR~1.EXE]
...

Upon even further investigation I don't know how that key got in there (Foxit seems not to produce it) or why TC used the short DOS name.

2. Please consider the following two registry snippets:

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[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.html]
"PerceivedType"="text"
@="Opera.HTML"
"Content Type"="text/html"

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[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Opera.HTML\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Opera 9\\Opera.exe\" \"%1\""

This clearly states that Opera is the default handler for html files. However TC says different: screenshot

3. I now have 2 actions for pdf. One for Foxit and the other for Acrobat. I can delete the action for Acrobat, but how do I delete the action for Foxit? Switching the default action doesn't seem to solve the issue.

4. In Control Panel->Folder Options no action is shown as default, although TC says that opening Foxit is the default action


Of course, all this happened with TC7pb2 and XPSP2 .