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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.
>
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