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re: Question about 'How do I remove unwanted programs from the
Wednesday, December 19, 2001 at 2:41 pm
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Posted by Steve Easton (5183 messages posted)

Dave, run regedit by typing it in start, run and clicking ok. In the panel that opens, click the + sign by HKEY_Classes_root. Scroll down until you see .dat and click on it. If there any values in right panel other than: Default dat_auto_file delete them and close regedit and reboot.

On Wednesday, December 19, 2001 at 7:18 am, Dave Graff wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I remove unwanted programs from the "Open With" list?:

>
>When installing Corel WordPerfect, a file association with the extension ".dat" is
>created. I can't remove this association without removing several other associations
>(".wpd" etc.) because they are all together on a single file associations line. Recreating
>that line with only the desired extensions does not work. Can I do it in the registry?
>Any ideas?

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Question about 'How do I remove unwanted programs from the (Dave Graff: Wed, Dec 19, 2001, 7:18 am)

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re: Question about 'How do I remove unwanted programs from the (anon: Wed, Jul 10, 2002, 8:34 pm)

[Fixed] RE: Question about 'How do I remove unwanted programs from the Open With list. (anon: Wed, Jul 10, 2002, 8:41 pm)

re: [Fixed] RE: Question about 'How do I remove unwanted programs from the Open With list. (Adam Le Momo: Tue, May 17, 2005, 9:46 am)

re: [Fixed] RE: Question about 'How do I remove unwanted programs from the Open With list. (generic entity: Mon, Jul 24, 2006, 3:49 pm)

re: [Fixed] RE: Question about 'How do I remove unwanted programs from the Open With list. (GN: Wed, Nov 15, 2006, 3:21 am)

re: [Fixed] RE: Question about 'How do I remove unwanted programs from the Open With list. (GN: Wed, Nov 15, 2006, 3:47 am)

re: [Fixed] RE: Question about 'How do I remove unwanted programs from the Open With list. (GN: Sat, Dec 2, 2006, 3:24 am)

re: [Fixed] RE: Question about 'How do I remove unwanted programs from the Open With list. (Chris: Tue, Dec 5, 2006, 1:16 pm)

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