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Question about 'Change a file association on the fly'
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Question about 'Change a file association on the fly'
Wednesday, May 26, 2004 at 8:13 am
Posted by Dale
(2 messages posted)
I have a question about Change
a file association on the fly:
I am running windows 98 and my .bmp files were associated with an adobe program,
something for photo editing, and that program was deleted some time back. now, it
is still associated with that program. I changed the "open with" command to paint
(when holding shift and right clicking on the file) so it opens with paint.
however, it is still associated with the deleted program.
when you go to view-folder options-file types the .bmp file type is not on the list
of registered file types. when i try to add it i cannot because it tells me that
the .bmp file type is still associated with the deleted adobe program. does anyone
know how i could destroy that association and associate it with paint? i have another
program that i use that embeds .bmp's into some files for printing, but it will not
work since the .bmp is associated with that adobe program, it needs to be associated
with paint.
thanks
Dale
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re: Question about 'Change a file association on the fly'
Wednesday, May 26, 2004 at 8:42 am
Posted by phantom
(5661 messages posted)
You can do it this way. Start, Run, type in winfile, hit the Enter key and when the
file opens click on File on the toolbar and choose Associate. When the windows opens
type bmp in the box. You can then associate it with MSPaint. You may have to browse
for it if it isn't listed. This application is left over from 95 and I wish they
still had it in XP.
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On Wednesday, May 26, 2004 at 8:13 am, Dale wrote:
>I have a question about Change
>a file association on the fly:
>
>I am running windows 98 and my .bmp files were associated with an adobe program,
>something for photo editing, and that program was deleted some time back. now,
it
>is still associated with that program. I changed the "open with" command to paint
>(when holding shift and right clicking on the file) so it opens with paint.
>however, it is still associated with the deleted program.
>when you go to view-folder options-file types the .bmp file type is not on the list
>of registered file types. when i try to add it i cannot because it tells me that
>the .bmp file type is still associated with the deleted adobe program. does anyone
>know how i could destroy that association and associate it with paint? i have another
>program that i use that embeds .bmp's into some files for printing, but it will
not
>work since the .bmp is associated with that adobe program, it needs to be associated
>with paint.
>thanks
>Dale
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re: Question about 'Change a file association on the fly'
Wednesday, May 26, 2004 at 8:56 am
Posted by JmC
(14166 messages posted)
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re: Question about 'Change a file association on the fly'
Wednesday, May 26, 2004 at 10:05 am
Posted by Dale
(2 messages posted)
i tried the winfile program and that fixed it for me. thanks. Dale
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