Windows 10: WTF happened to "Open With"?

EDIT: Figured it out, I need to go into the properties menu to set this up now. That kind of sucks as I'd rather just have a context menu drop down from right click, but it'll do for now. Gonna E-mail Microsoft later to complain about this pointless change. I know it probably won't do any good, but it will make me feel better.

It doesn't work anymore.

I right click on an odd filetype, usually a text based format such as .ini or .cfg in this case, the top selection on the right click list says "Open With" in bold letters, but I never have any opportunity to choose what program to associate the file with. None of the options allow for it, I just get dumped on a file identifier website or end up in useless 'help' menus that don't do anything useful. I don't need a new program, I just need to be able to associate the file type with notepad.

Usually all I want to do is open the file with notepad as I'm editing config files and such in video games for modding purposes. I used to be able to right click, go to "open with" and then select which program I wanted to use to open the file. This was a simple and intuitive process, and now it seems to be missing since the last update.

The option to choose what file to open the file with is just not there anymore and it's super frustrating as I do a lot of this type of editing.

I know I can open notepad and navigate to the file and do things that way, but I shouldn't have to do that. There's no good reason for this feature to be suddenly gone.

Any ideas about what to do here or a workaround so that I don't have to open notepad and navigate through the file system all the way to the stupid file I want to open?

:)

 

Undo New Folder Complete WTF Happened to My Files?

I got some files/photos off my phone and put them into a New Folder. As I went to copy over other files some said replace and gave no other option but to skip or replace and no way to verify if the ones I replaced would be the same ones, but I figured they
must be so I did that. Now on a normal transfer you get the Undo Move option - why the hell wasn't it there? Looking for it I accidentally clicked Undo New Folder and discovered to my absolute horror that ALL my photos disappeared - no recycle bin, no restoration
to the phone, nada, zip, zilch. Now I would think that this would be something that SHOULD have not been an issue as it didn't even ask me if this was an action I wanted to do. So..... is this where I get told I can kiss my files/photos goodbye or will I actually
get someone with some working knowledge who will actually help me find out where the hell these files went and help me retrieve them as I am struggling to understand WHY this is screw up is not yet fixed when - as I saw when I Googled it is a rather common
occurrence. It makes me wonder when we can expect to see a lawsuit in suing for lost/damaged property that was the responsibility of Microsoft in their capacity to ensure their product works efficiently enough that screw ups like this don't happen and are
FIXED and property restored.

So the question is - where the hell are my files and how can I get them back, because these were important and I want them back now.

 

Undo New Folder Complete WTF Happened to My Files?

Hi,

For us to better assist you and provide you with the appropriate troubleshooting steps, we would like to ask a few more information. Kindly answer the questions below:

• What is the make and model of your phone?
• What operating system is it running on?

We're looking forward for your response.

 

Shift or Ctrl with right click?

 

Precisely.

That's strange. In my case clicking on "Open with..." immediately opens a universal-style dialog window that says "How do you want to open this file?"





The window allows me to choose the program. This is basically the same window we used to get pre-Windows 10, but reworked into the new universal-style GUI.