Not applying all the contents of registry file to Windows 10 1803 image

[XJDHDR]

I use NTLite to integrate a number of registry files into my Windows 10 images. I've recently noticed that a few of the keys and values in the attached registry file are not being applied. This registry file basically associates the Notepad++ exe with a number of text file extensions. For example, the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt\ShellNew and HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\txtfile\shell\open\command keys are not inserted into the image's registry and so are not present after installing the integrated Windows image. I've also noticed that Notepad++ also does not appear in the "Defaults Apps" settings section even though my registry file is supposed to add it there. I currently have to either apply this registry file after installing Windows or add the missing registry keys to the image's registry manually.

Please can this problem be investigated and fixed? Thanks.

 

[XJDHDR]

I have already done this with my Win10 image. However, the problem is not that Windows is resetting my file associations to what MS thinks I want. The problem is that the registry keys that creates those associations are not being added to the image in the first place. If you open the image's registry after asking NTLite to integrate my registry file, you will notice that the keys I mentioned are not not present even though they are defined in my file. And there is no reason why they should not be there, outside a bug in NTLite.

The other problem is

that Notepad++ also does not appear in the "Defaults Apps" settings section even though my registry file is supposed to add it there.

This makes it impossible to implement your suggestion because the App Associations XML method requires that the program associated with that file extension be present in that settings section. If your program is not present, Windows will ignore the associations for that program defined in the XML.