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re: Question about 'Change a file association on the fly'
Wednesday, October 1, 2003 at 2:06 am
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Posted by Ben (1 messages posted)


Hasn't this post gone round full circle?. The problem is that when you right click on the icon, and choose "open with" you can, of course, open the file in any application, but the annoyance is that the "always open with" tick box is greyed out. Why does this happen?.


On Saturday, September 29, 2001 at 11:59 am, Joven wrote:
>Should be as simple as this : click once on the file to select it (not open it).
>Once selected, hold shift then right click on the file. The drop down menu will show
>"open with" as an option. Slide over and down to choose program. Once you find the
>program you want it to open with, just check the box to always open with... and hit
>ok. Good Luck
>


Written in response to:
re: Question about 'Change a file association on the fly' (Joven: Saturday, September 29, 2001 at 11:59 am)

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*re: Question about 'Change a file association on the fly' (toadpole: Thursday, January 6, 2005 at 12:33 am)

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-Question about 'Change a file association on the fly' (Jennifer Ayres: Thu, Sep 20, 2001, 4:52 pm)
*re: Question about 'Change a file association on the fly' (Wendy: Fri, Sep 21, 2001, 1:46 pm)
-re: Question about 'Change a file association on the fly' (digsby: Sun, Sep 23, 2001, 12:58 pm)
*re: Question about 'Change a file association on the fly' (Jennifer Ayres: Sun, Sep 23, 2001, 2:15 pm)
-re: Question about 'Change a file association on the fly' (Joven: Sat, Sep 29, 2001, 11:59 am)
-re: Question about 'Change a file association on the fly' (Ben: Wed, Oct 1, 2003, 2:06 am)
-re: Question about 'Change a file association on the fly' (toadpole: Thu, Jan 6, 2005, 12:33 am)
-re: Question about 'Change a file association on the fly' (2damntall: Tue, Aug 9, 2005, 7:17 pm)
*re: Question about 'Change a file association on the fly' (Nick Guy: Sun, Oct 9, 2005, 3:30 pm)
*re: Question about 'Change a file association on the fly' (bas: Mon, Dec 19, 2005, 2:22 am)
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