Why doesnt PI appear in Programme list

[Nigel Ball]

I thought it would be a good idea to set PI as the default programme for opening FITS files

However PI does not appear either in the Recommended Programmes or Other Programmes under Vista 

[Nocturnal]

I hope you're not *that* surprised that Vista is clueless about FITS files. Click 'browse' and find pixinsight.exe. Solved.

[Nigel Ball]

Click 'browse' and find pixinsight.exe. Solved.

Yes I realise that Sander

My question was more 'How come CCDStack, Maxim, Photoshop' appear in the associated with FITS file list and not PI. If Vista was clueless about FITS then surely none would appear .... 

[Niall Saunders]

Any program can 'tell' the OS that it is capable of opening 'such and such' a type of data file. Presumably the likes of Maxim and CCDStack do just that. Photoshop cannot open FITS files, at least not 'natively' - it requires something like FITS Liberator to be able to do this, whereupon it will also 'tell' the OS that it can now open FITS files.

I am not sure what your problem is - I don't ever remember my Vista64 OS 'not' using PixInsight as the default program for opening FITS files and, if there was such a time, I am sure that I just 'advised' the OS which program (i.e. PI) that I wanted to be the default to be used.

Then again, because PI is 'always running' on my machine, I may well open FITS files more often by 'drag-n-dropping' via the TaskBar. Each to their own, I suppose.

[georg.viehoever]

...My question was more 'How come CCDStack, Maxim, Photoshop' appear in the associated with FITS file list and not PI. If Vista was clueless about FITS then surely none would appear .... 

Hi Nigel,

it is usually the installer program that registers a program as the default handler for certain data types. The PI installer does not do that (yet). Maybe you add this to the Wish List section of this forum...

Georg