W11 file associations reset on client after image is deployed.
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Not sure if this is necessarily related to FOG, but has anyone else had an issue where when you deploy an image, all your file associations you’ve set for default apps get reset back to defaults? We had been on W10 for all our machines and never had any issues, but we just made new W11 masters for all our different machine types and have been running into this issue with all of them.
Any idea what could be causing this or how to fix it? Is there anything I could run via snapin to reassociate apps with certain file extensions?
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Slight correction, it seems the file associations are correct until we run our post imaging snapin. Then once we boot the computer again, they have reverted.
All the snapin does is set the wallpaper, adds a few WIFI networks from XML files, and installs Splashtop.
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@BrightPipe Can you post the snapin?
This isn’t something FOG is doing, though you already suspect that as well.
So seeing the snapin file, I’m guessing it’s using some method that’s effectively saying “set all the things” and the snapin is set to only set “specific” things.
Since the action is effectively “setting all the things” it’s resetting the other things you didn’t intend.
Seeing the snapin and the actions involved will be most beneficial at least to understand what’s happening. We may not be able to fix the issue but at least we could all better understand the problem and maybe think of ways to troubleshoot and hopefully narrow down whats wrong.
At cursory glance, it feels like the snapin is misconfigured in someway. Thought you did say it worked in Windows 10, but not in Windows 11, so it’s also just as possible there’s some functional difference that needs to be adjusted for in the Windows 11 side of things.
