Change registry key FriendlyAppName to "MuseScore 2.1"

• Apr 7, 2017 - 15:27
Reported version
2.2
Type
Functional
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Status
active
Project

Change registry key HCR/Applications/MuseScore.exe/shell/open/FriendlyAppName to "Musecore 2" or "MuseScore 2.1". This helps on right-click → "Open with", when having 1.x and 2.x installed in parallel, and will help even more later once 3.0 is out, to diffentiate which version you want a score getting opened with.

This is what it looks like for me, with that change:
openwith.png


Comments

Making this work for MuseScore 3 too probably means the need to rename the executable. It so far is mscore.exe for 1.x and MuseScore.exe for 2.x, maybe needs to become something like MuseScore3.exe for 3.x? Something to consider once 30 is nearing I guess

But now it might be good to also change (or add?) the registry key HCR/Applications/mscore.exe/shell/open/FriendlyAppName to "Musecore 1", "MuseScore 1.3" or "MuseScore 1.x".