re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 1:23 am Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Norman De Forest (1 messages posted) On Friday, March 22, 2002 at 6:38 pm, Xavier Theoret wrote: >I have a question about Prevent >Programs From Changing Your File Types: > >... I have a similar problem with Internet Explorer 6 file type association? As an >example... Mpeg movies (*.MPG) are normally opened with Windows media >player in windows. But, opening the same MPG file in a web page will call for Quicktime!! >Since I'm the webmaster of the test page (http://go.to/timelapse), >I can garantee that there is no difference between the file on the web (read by Quicktime) >and on my disk (read by media player). > >Long ago, you could manually select which application will run for every file type >in IE. Not anymore? > >Any help would be great, Thanks!! > >Xavier Theoret Check your default for *.mpeg files as well as *.mpg files. You will probably find them to be different. I was able to copy your biscuits.mpg to biscuits.mpeg and have one open with the Media Player and the other open with QuickTime. Your server is sending "video/mpeg" so IE is using mpeg for the http access. Written in response to: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (Xavier Theoret: Friday, March 22, 2002 at 6:38 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (Xavier Theoret: Wednesday, April 3, 2002 at 6:15 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (Xavier Theoret: Fri, Mar 22, 2002, 6:38 pm) re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (Norman De Forest: Wed, Mar 27, 2002, 1:23 am) re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (Xavier Theoret: Wed, Apr 3, 2002, 6:15 pm) re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (Igor: Thu, Feb 20, 2003, 12:02 pm) re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (OJDIDIT: Tue, Apr 1, 2003, 11:26 am) re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (Rick_GoCougs: Sat, Apr 29, 2006, 12:38 am) <b><font color="#DD0000"> Beware viri in that like mentioned multiple times in this thread. </font></b> (Rick_GoCougs: Sat, Apr 29, 2006, 1:01 am) re: <b><font color="#DD0000"> Beware viri in that like mentioned multiple times in this thread. </font></b> (Xavier Theoret: Mon, Oct 9, 2006, 5:49 pm) re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (ken watanabe: Sun, Jul 15, 2007, 10:13 am) re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (Xavier Theoret: Thu, Jul 19, 2007, 6:29 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 Me Discussion Forum