re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types'
Wednesday, October 31, 2001 at 1:27 pm
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Steve Easton
(5183 messages posted)
Dick, When off-line, right click the IE icon on the desk top, click properties, click
programs and check the box to have IE Check to see if it's the default browser. then,
click "reset web settings" and uncheck the box that says reset my home page. Click
OK to exit. You shouldn't have to reboot, but I would anyway.
On Wednesday, October 31, 2001 at 11:54 am, Dick Paladino wrote:
>I have a question about Prevent
>Programs From Changing Your File Types:
>
>Windows 95 v4.00.950B; IE 5.0; 233Mhz; 64 MB RAM
>
>I recently switched over from my AOL dial up service, to Comcast@home cable access.
> After installing their web browser, I didn't like it, and uninstalled it. Now,
>when I click on some hyperlinks, I get a Windows
>error message that says,
>
>"Program Not Found. Windows can not find Home.exe. This program is needed for
opening
>files of type 'URL: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.'
>
>It happens with hyperlinks that are imbedded in Outlook Express email messages,
as
>well as when I click the "Check for Upgrade" radio buttons in various installed
programs.
>
>I went to the HTML Documents file, clicked 'Edit',
>hilited 'Open', and clicked 'Edit'. I saw that the file association designated
the
>application to perform the action was identified as,
>
> files\@home\ATHMWWW\Home.exe""%1
>
>I changed it to,
>
>"C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\iexplore.exe"%1
>
>That's the same as on my other similarly set-up Windows 95, non internet attached
>computer I still get the same error message after making the change.
>
>I went back to the file association menu, and when it opened it, I saw that the
topmost
>box, the one
>titled 'Action', has 'Open' spelled 'O&pen'. Could this be some sort of corruption?
> I tried to remove the '&', but since the box is inactive, I was unable to do so.
>
>Prior to installing the @home browser, Internet Explorer 5.0 opened HTTP hyperlinks.
> How can I enable it to do so again?
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