More About What it Does in Detail:

The Nirsoft website gives the following details:

FileTypesMan is an alternative to the ‘File Types’ tab in the ‘Folder Options’ of Windows. It displays the list of all file extensions and types registered on your computer. For each file type, the following information is displayed: Type Name, Description, MIME Type, Perceived Type, Flags, Browser Flags, and more.
FileTypesMan also allows you to easily edit the properties and flags of each file type, as well as it allows you to add, edit, and remove actions in a file type.

Having installed FileTypesMan the following screens and menus are provided:

This review will follow the usual format of presenting the majority of information as screenshots backed up by further information where necessary.

(click on any picture to enlarge where necessary)

Main Window

On starting FileTypesMan searches the system and then displays a list of all the file associations found.

Edit File Type

Double clicking on any line in the window displays the Edit File Type Window with plenty of information and options.

Context Menu

Right Clicking on any line shows the Context Menu which replicates many of the main menu and toolbar options.

Main Menu & Toolbar

The menus are:

File

Edit

View

Action

Options

Help

These are all self explanatory.

You will also note that there are several checkboxes to select (or not) options to:

1. Turn on monitor sand resume from screen saver
2. Keep on screen afterwards
3. Repair network
4. Specify what to do next
5. Run program after wakeup
6. Run programs before hibernate/standby
7. Switch to tray

The Start button puts WakeupOnStandBy into active mode and the … button next to Start  shows the following options:

Properties

Find

You can use the Find function to locate a particular file extension or program, this is then displayed in the main window with the Actions at the bottom:

In this example .txt has been found and the actions

1. Open
2. Print
3. Printto

are shown in the bottom pane.

Edit Action

Here is an example of an Edit window with DDE information:

Reports

Text

HTML

Replace File Type for Selected Extension Option

Open In Registry Editor

Columns

Select Columns Shown

Available Columns

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