Set .jar file association in WinXP

[twoeyes]

Hi there.

I've recently started playing around with Java, and ran into one of those stupid problems that just shouldn't exist. =)

I can't associate .jar files in Windows XP (and ONLY WinXP) to "javaw -jar %1". The dialog doesn't like having any parameters, at least it didn't seem to for me.

Am I the only one with this problem? Short of digging through the registry, is there a recommended way to do create the association?

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[Targol]

Can't you do it with the "file types" tab of the "folders options" dialog in explorer ? Water is not bad as long as it stays out human body ;-)

 

[twoeyes]

Nope. Tried that. At least on my install of WinXP, XP tries to do some magic error checking, and rejects ANY parameters send to the "associate to" program.

And I quote from XP:

"java.exe -jar
File not found.
Please verify..."

Stupid. Works fine in win 98...


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[Targol]

I tried it and had the same error until I put the full path for javaw. to be clear :

javaw -jar %1

or

javaw.exe -jar %1

gave me the famous ;-) "file not found" while

D:\LOGICIEL\WSAD\jre\bin\javaw -jar %1

worked well (I think it's useless to say that "D:\LOGICIEL\WSAD\jre\bin" is the path to reach javaw.exe)
Water is not bad as long as it stays out human body ;-)

 

[twoeyes]

Hmm, thanks for the response. I tried again... and still couldn't get it to work!

Looking at your example, I tried testing a path that had no spaces in it - no luck.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong here... I've just tested this on NT4 - no problems there...

Ah well, it's not that important.

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