Edit menu in Photoshop CS3

[hpharley90]

I just installed PS CS3.
I used to do a little menu editing in Photoshop Elements 4.0.
But now that I have CS3 installed it still opens Elements when I try to edit menu.
How can I get it to open CS3 instead?
Thanks
Rich

[Chuck Engels]

Hi Richard,
You need to Associate the file extensions with the program.

From the Windows Explorer menu at the top select 'Tools' and then 'Folder Options'.
Click on the 'File Types' tab.
Go down the list until you come to the PSD file extension and Change the 'Opens With' to CS3.

If you have any questions or problems just let us know

[Chuck Engels]

Here is the Microsoft article on how to do it
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307859

[hpharley90]

Worked like a charm Chuck.
Thanks
Rich

[Bobby]

Odd - the CS3 installation should have set the associations.

I assume you installed CS3 before Elements? Did the installation complete correctly?

I might not worry too much about other, less used extensions - but PSD is the basic format of the program.

[hpharley90]

I assume you installed CS3 before Elements? Did the installation complete correctly?

No. Installed CS3 one hour ago. At least two years after Elements.
CS3 installed fine and is working.
And after Chucks tip, menu edits in Encore CS3 open Photoshop CS3.
It's working fine.

[Bob]

It's been a while since I installed Photoshop CS3, but I seem to recall the installation has a step where you can bypass setting the file associations. Besides the method outlined above, you can always go into Bridge CS3 (not Photoshop CS3) and edit preferences. There is a section for specifying the default file associations. That way, you can get all the Photoshop related associations at the same time. If you do that, be sure to review the prefixes to ensure you don't override one that you want to keep.

[hpharley90]

Now that I look at my initial post I never mentioned that it was Encore menus that I would edit in Elements 4.0 and when I would click file>edit in PhotoShop it would still open Elements 4.0 after the CS3 install.
But Chucks tip was what I needed.
Thanks everyone.