You can use a registry hack to force Windows to skip this dialog altogether, and give you a list of applications to use to open the file instead, just as if you had selected the second option.
When you double-click on a file with an unknown extension, Windows presents you with this irritating dialog:
If you selected “Select a program from a list of installed programs”, you would get this much more useful dialog instead:
The registry hack will show you the second Open With dialog instead of that irritating first one.
Manual Registry Hack
Open regedit.exe through the start menu search or run box, and then browse down to the following key (create the key if it doesn’t exist)
Create a new 32-bit DWORD value on the right-hand side with the following values:
Name: NoInternetOpenWith Value: 1
The change should be immediate, no need to restart anything. To reset back to default, set the value to 0 or delete the key.
Downloadable Registry Hack for Vista or XP
To apply the registry hack, just double-click on the DisableInternetOpenWith.reg file and enter the information into the registry.
DownloadInternetOpenWith Registry hack for Windows XP / Vista
