I've installed BiaB on a my D drive (1 HDD 2 partitions C and D) but I can't get the program to associate files at all. The same problem has happened on my friends PC too and we can't find a solution.

Using Vista Home Premium, the problem seems to be a result of installing BiaB on a drive other than the system drive (C). Using the "open with" option when right clicking the file and browsing to the bbw.exe Vista fails to add it as the default program for which to open those file types. The only program available to associate is Acrobat Reader.

I tried copying bbw.exe to the "program files" folder in the system drive to see if it would show up as an option to be selected in the "open with" window... low and behold there it was and Vista would allow me to associate the files, but of course I only copied the bbw.exe from the D drive where BiaB is installed so the program wouldn't run from the "program files" location. We tried locating the files (SGU etc) to the same directory as the installation of BiaB and that didn't work either.

Next we tried the new option in Biab to allow the program to associate the files (file/file utilities/associate files) but that didn't work either, BiaB reported that it had associated the files but in fact it had not. I have 2008.5 and my friend has 2007.5.

My feeling is that it's an operating system problem rather than BiaB, it's happened on two different computers (mine and my friend) both with the same OS and configuration (ie installed on D drive instead of C).

It's a real inconvenience having to open songs from my library using file/open etc when previously I could simply double click a file from an open window.

I really hope someone can help us with this... it's driving me nuts!!



Thanks in advance - Ian

Specs:
Creative X-fi with front bay audio panel
AMD Phenom II 555BE x2
4GB 1333 DDR3 ram
Windows 7 64 bit