How To Prevent Winamp 5 From Restoring File Associations
Contributed by shamanstears 
October 8, 2006 
Tagged: Windows
By default, Winamp 5 will attempt to restore associations of various multimedia files when the application is launched. This can be rather annoying if you do not prefer to use Winamp to play all of your multimedia content. To prevent Winamp 5 from performing this action, do the following:
1. Right-click on Winamp’s title bar,
2. click Options, then select Preferences.
2. In the Winamp Preferences dialog box, click File Types.
3. Uncheck Restore file associations at Winamp start-up.
4. Click Close.