How to set file associations in Windows 7 (not 'open', but others)

In Windows XP, I could go to a menuFichier associations see or change references to elements like: Edit, print, etc., in addition to 'Open', and I could put the opened another default action (examples 'play', merger or edit).

Where can I do this in Win7?

I know on the page "Panel-> Default Programs-> Set Associations (associate a file of a program)", but that seems to have only the opportunity to choose a program that will be called when the user "clicks" on the file, which is the default action.

I recently installed an image viewer, but it took all my image assocs, editing program.

This is some 'sense' (otherwise, how to see pics in the Viewer?), so I right click to see if there was another option to edit my photo (such as edit)...   There are - except that it does not start my photo editing program, it starts 'paint '.

So, how can I do the 'Edit' menu option to call my editor?

In a more general way, how can I change one of the right-click options to point to my program, or if, say, 'change '.
was not there, and I wanted to 'Edit' on '.reg' programs to open the file in a text editor?

These things were relatively simple in Windows XP, but now I have no idea on where to find these basic
Setting OS features.

I can't imagine that MS would expect people to learn and use 'regedit' to make these types of changes - but this seems to be the only program supplied with Win7 to do this, or I just WAY missing something obvious?

Thank you!

You are missing the old style "File Types" dialog allowing you to resolve this kind of things?  In Windows 7 (and Vista), you will need to set manually in the registry.  But there is a small program that brings your familiar functionality.   I have not used it myself, but it seems to be quite impressive.  Here is the link: http://types.sourceforge.net/

Thank you very much for this link!

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