Office 2003 SP2 removes TIF and TIFF association

In Microsoft's infinite wisdom, they have removed program association to .TIF and .TIFF files as well as .MDI.

So now hundreds of people are calling me asking why they can't view imaging. Thanks, Bill, for making my life easier.

Anyway, this is documented in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938813 and the fix is these registry changes;

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.tif]
"Progid"="MSPaper.Document"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.tif\OpenWithProgids]
"MSPaper.Document"=hex(0):

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.tiff]
"Progid"="MSPaper.Document"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.tiff\OpenWithProgids]
"MSPaper.Document"=hex(0):



So it's per user, meaning you have to run this in Zen per user, or login script over and over.