On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Here’s a warning, while checking-in via Tortoise SVN today I must have > previewed (opened with....) a bat file and forgotten to untick the “always > open with”, or perhaps there was no option, I can’t remember. So this caused > all bat files to open with notepad when double-clicked in the shell. > > > > Be warned that web searches on this problem produce countless pages of > results which are misleading, duplicated, wrong or dangerous (by asking you > to blindly merge registry data they supply).
I'm happy enough to copy paste stuff from the web if I can read and understand what it does. If it pokes around in areas of the registry to do with drivers, and it looks dodgy... then no. Anyone found a trustworthy registry cleaner these days? No? My thoughts too. Not even really sure if it's necessary. > Avoiding dangerous routes, I > dumped and compared various keys from another okay Win7 machine with my > cactus one, but found no differences, probably because there are so many > places to look you can never find them all. > > An app that logged writes to the registry in some way that you could revert or roll them back would be nice. > > My first test was to merge back HKCR\CLSID batfile from a good machine but > it made no difference. Eventually I noticed one of the web pages mentioned > this key: > > > > HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.bat > > > > There was a subkey called UserPreference (or something like that, I forget, > I was flustered) with a single entry pointing to notepad. I deleted that and > now bat files are back to normal. > > > > And so I lose again over an hour of otherwise paid work time, more hair and > more sanity. You couldn’t make this shit up. > > :) -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
