re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' Thursday, July 24, 2003 at 8:25 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by John (29 messages posted) Ctstan. Try to mark and remove the whole file extention in Folder options. Then double-click the file and scroll through programs and select alway open in IE. Maybe this will work. Could also try a reboot between to make sure. On Thursday, July 24, 2003 at 7:04 pm, ctstan wrote: >I have a question about Prevent >Programs From Changing Your File Types: >It seems that MS Photo Editor won't "let go" of the association it established with >.gif and .jpg. > >I have gone to the File Types section of Folder Options and set both extensions to >open with IE. They still open with Photo Editor (even though I have double checked >and they SAY they are to open with IE). > >I have tried the "on the fly" work around, That is, I have held the shift key while >right clicking a file with .gif and .jpg extensions. I have checked the "always >open with this program box". i have then selected IE as the program to open the >file with. MS Photo Editor STILL was the program that opened the files. I am running >Win98. This is very weird. > > Written in response to: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (ctstan: Thursday, July 24, 2003 at 7:04 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (ctstan: Saturday, July 26, 2003 at 9:47 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (ctstan: Thu, Jul 24, 2003, 7:04 pm) re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (John: Thu, Jul 24, 2003, 8:25 pm) re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (ctstan: Sat, Jul 26, 2003, 9:47 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum