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-====== How to use as a file associator ======
-You already know that file types are associated by Windows with a single program that can use it.
-What that means is that when Microsoft Word was installed by you, it told Windows that if you click on a DOC file then make Windows use Microsoft Word (associate itself) with the DOC file and then Word knows to open it for you.
-In easy to understand terms, Windows makes DOC files to use WORD to open them.  DOC is associated with WORD.
-Well, that's all good, but what if you have a PORTABLE application that is on your Flash Drive or in a folder on your external ''F:'' drive?  No association can be made because Windows didn't INSTALL and REGISTER it.
-DropIt to the rescue again.
-Use the rules and associations of DropIt to make your TED (editor) on the ''F:'' drive be used when you click on a TXT file, or an INI file.
-''Tutorial under development''
-''>> using Open With action to open files with portable applications''

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