How do you remove a default program association for file types in Windows?

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Published on 2009-10-01T15:37:21Z Indexed on 2010/05/17 13:21 UTC
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I somehow have set the default filetype association for a filetype in windows 7. It doesn't appear to be possible to delete it from the "change the file type associated with a file extention" options screen.

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