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When you right-click on a file, one of the options is “Open With”, and in many situations, there will be a sub-menu with a few options. For instances, and BMP, GIF, or JPG file can be opened in a variety of programs, and these may all be listed. Yesterday Download Squad posted about a program called OpenWithView<\/a> which “allows you to easily disable\/enable the applications in the Windows “open with” dialog box.” In the comments of that post, another person mentioned OpenExpert<\/a>, another utility that lets you “specify any number of suitable applications for each file type. In this way, when you open a file, instead of being restricted to using a single pre-determined application, you can easily choose among a list of suitable applications.”<\/p>\n

If you like to open certain file types in a variety of different applications (depending on what you want to do with the file when you open it), then you should give these a try:<\/p>\n