Or, if reluctant to edit the registry, To change which program starts when you open a file
In My Computer or Windows Explorer, on the View menu, click Folder Options. Click the File Types tab. In the list of file types, click the one you want to change. Click Edit. In Actions, click Open. Click Edit. In Application used to perform action, enter the program you want to use to open files that have this extension, and then click OK. Note The settings for selected file types are shown in File type details. >From the built-in Windows Help File. Elaine Hello owner-pcworks On Friday, March 22, 2002, you wrote > At 07:28 PM 3/21/02 -0700, Cindy Pavey wrote the following: >>Recently I received an email with an attachment that was an unknown file type. >>I told it which program to use to open it and forgot to take the checkmark out >>of the "Always open with this program". Now it opens everything with that >>program and I don't want it to. How do I change it? > To permanently remove the checkmark in front of "Always open with this > program" edit the registry. > Start -- Run -- regedit > Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Unknown\shell\openas\command > Open the string named (Default) and add %2 to the end of the string. > The modified string should now look something like this: > C:\WINDOWS\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,OpenAs_RunDLL %1 %2 > -- > Gerry Boyd ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
