Audacity Forum

I am sure the others here are using your (the correct) technique, but are both your Audacity executables for 1.3.14 and 2.0 named the same? Yes, they are. Both installs are totally "vanilla", taking all the default values as set by the installer software. I suspect the difference is that all of us ...

reed1e wrote:No need to run CCleaner or anything. Gale's solution is simple and works. Just change the filename eg to audacity2.exe and the association then works without a hitch.

I'm no expert, but: in that case what would one expect the state of the system to be after the *next* upgrade?

Yep - running CCleaner fixed the problem. Thanks to rgdave for the tip, and to Gale Andrews for the explanation!

Using one of the files whose type you want to associate with Audacity: [...] had you read the thread, you would realize that your suggestion doesn't resolve the issue for the users with this problem. I wouldn't have posted the reply if I hadn't read the thread. At which step does it not work and wh...

(Windows 7 home premium, 64-bit) Just installed Audacity 2.0, after uninstalling 1.3 beta per instructions. Now Audacity does not appear among the "Open Using" choices in the context menu for sound files. Further, browsing to and selecting audacity.exe doesn't work - the program choice returns to th...