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re: Question about 'Change a file association on the fly'
Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 9:50 am
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Posted by Dick Baksteen (2 messages posted)

Permanently untick "always use this program.." has been dealt with under //members.aol.com/axcel216/newtip16.htm A change has to be made in the Registry under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Unknown\shell\openas\command Change the end of the command (now "...%1") in "...%1 %2", so just add %2 after a space. It works!

On Monday, March 10, 2003 at 7:13 pm, Paul Nickerson wrote:
>Is there any way to have the "always use this program to open these files" tick automatically
>unticked when the "open with" window is opened? I have several times ly associated
>the wrong file types with the wrong programs because i forgot to untick the tick.
>
>

Written in response to:: re: Question about 'Change a file association on the fly' (Paul Nickerson: Monday, March 10, 2003 at 7:13 pm)

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