Installing ACDSee

One of the complaints I have heard about ACDSee is that it takes over my computer. It tries to be the software that wants to open all the image types and other types of files too. (which is really called File Associations. A File association is telling your computer that for this type of file, I want to use this software.)

The other day, I was going to show my husband a video file on my laptop. It starts loading and he asks what software are using. I replied with ACDSee of course. His reply was “Isn’t that an IMAGE organizer software?” Well, for the most part it is. It does allow you to view movies and listen to audio clips. But I will agree that there are other tools out there that are made for video or audio files and have more functionality. And if you are using an image editing program, you may want to keep those files it creates associated with that program. (.pspimages are opened with PSP) So how do you avoid it? It’s during the install process.

I wrote up a help that takes you through the install process to avoid this file takeover. Installing ACDSee Photo Manager with custom options

Have you already installed it and want to return it back to a different way? Here’s how: How do I change File Associations? It’s also a good idea inside of ACDSee Photo Manager to go to Tools | File Associations and uncheck the ones you don’t want ACDSee to handle.

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