{"id":14635,"date":"2021-12-15T12:20:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T12:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=14635"},"modified":"2021-12-15T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T12:22:00","slug":"gpo-file-type-to-open-in-default-programs","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-2008\/gpo-file-type-to-open-in-default-programs\/1038.html","title":{"rendered":"GPO File Type To Open In Default Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Trying to configure a GPO to make a file type mp3 and others to open in VLC player instead of the default windows media player.<\/p>\n<p>If I create a GPO to update folder option in Computer Configuration to associate mp3 to VLC media file (.mp3) nothing happens and GPO results shows its the winning GPO<\/p>\n<p>But If I do the change to USer configuration and and associated program file path %programfiles%\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\vlc.exe (set as default) it will startup in VLC when I double click the file .<\/p>\n<p>Problem is the &#8220;Type&#8221; has changed to &#8220;vlc.exe&#8221; in the file browser instead of &#8220;MP3 format Sound&#8221; or VLC media file (.mp3) which we can&#8217;t upload to websites since it thinks its a .exe. file but command prompt still shows it as a .mp3.<\/p>\n<p>Any ideas, we are using Windows 2008 R2 server with windows 7\/8 clients.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><i>message edited by kiwi_hk<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":10},"question-category":[73],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-14635","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-windows-2008"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/14635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=14635"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=14635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}