Open one file type in many apps with OpenExpert

Want to open GIFs, JPEGs or HTML files from your browser one day and from an editing program the next? Opening a file and its application from Explorer is usually a one-file-type, one-application kind of procedure. It's possible to dig through the myriad Explorer dialog boxes to change your options, but who wants to do that for several file types? OpenExpert can help. This handy little utility (free to home users, $US20 for businesses) adds an "Open With" submenu to your right-click menu and makes it a breeze to configure applications. Once you've set up a few applications, adding them to the menu for other file types is a simple drag-and-drop procedure. You can also customise the names of applications and the order that they appear on the menu. Why didn't Microsoft think of this? Thank the people at BaxBex Software for such a great idea. You can download OpenExpert from the vendor's site (www.baxbex.com) or from our cover CD.