Changing file associations in windows as a non administrator user

It seems that non-admin users on Windows 2000 and Windows XP can't edit their own file associations. This becomes a problem when you have a nonstandard association that needs to be in place for everyone in the office/organization. I grappled with this problem a bit, but eventually found that I could write a simple VBscript to edit the current user's registry settings to add in my own file assocations for a given extension. The code is below, simply save this script with a vbs extension (example: fileAssn.vbs) and add it as a login script for any users who need the association:

Option Explicit

Dim objShell
set objShell = WScript.CreateObject ("WScript.Shell")

'----------------------------------------------------------------
' Don't edit above here
'
' Below is an example of associating PDF files with AcroRd32.exe
' You can change this to whatever you need, and just
' copy and paste the line over again to add more associations.
'-----------------------------------------------------------------

addFileAssociation ".pdf", "AcroRd32.exe"


'-------------------------
' Don't edit below here
'-------------------------
Sub addFileAssociation( fileExt, whichApp )

If ( Left(fileExt, 1) <> "." ) Then
fileExt = "." & fileExt
End If

objShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\" & fileExt & "\Application", whichApp

End Sub