re: File editing opens wrong application
Sunday, October 6, 2002 at 12:23 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Michael
(2800 messages posted)
You didn't say if you have Internet Explorer installed or not, but you can use it
to change the association from the 'Programs' tab from 'Internet options' (on the
'Tools' menu).
On Sunday, October 6, 2002 at 12:04 pm, Czarland Junky wrote:
>Normally I right click on my HTML files and select EDIT to bring them up in Notepad,
>but I recently made one page so large that it became too big for Notepad to handle,
>so it asked me if I wanted to open it in Word instead, which I did. As a result
>of this, whenever I want to edit any HTML file, it opens Word instead of Notepad,
>which is EXTREMELY ANNOYING, due to Word's excessive memory-hogging attributes.
>I know I've got to somehow edit it in the registry but I wouldn't even know where
>to start. The HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT has a list of all the file types, but I don't see
>anything wrong. The OpenWithList is even still set for Notepad. Is there somewhere
>else I have to go to tell my computer that I want all HTML files opened by Notepad
>instead of Word?
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