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re: Question about 'Change a file association on the fly'
Friday, September 21, 2001 at 1:46 pm
Posted by Wendy
(1 messages posted)
Jennifer,
You're one up on me...I don't even see it grayed out? I just get "Open"?
On Thursday, September 20, 2001 at 4:52 pm, Jennifer Ayres wrote:
>I have a question about Change
>a file association on the fly:
>
>
>I right-clicked but the 'open with' option was grayed out. I iinadvertently selected
>open with Notepad on an ASP file that was in an attachment. Now, the browser opens,
>but so does Notepad.
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re: Question about 'Change a file association on the fly'
Sunday, September 23, 2001 at 12:58 pm
Posted by digsby
(129 messages posted)
I'm not sure. You could try going to regedit and checking the file association as
you've selected notepad for .asp it may be in the registry. Go:
start/run/regedit and expand
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.asp\
In the right window you should get default "aspfile". I don't think there should
be any other folders in the .asp folder as there are for other file extentions listed.
Were you expecting this .asp file in your email? Is it from a reliable source?
digsby
digsby
On Thursday, September 20, 2001 at 4:52 pm, Jennifer Ayres wrote:
>I have a question about Change
>a file association on the fly:
>
>
>I right-clicked but the 'open with' option was grayed out. I iinadvertently selected
>open with Notepad on an ASP file that was in an attachment. Now, the browser opens,
>but so does Notepad.
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re: Question about 'Change a file association on the fly'
Sunday, September 23, 2001 at 2:15 pm
Posted by Jennifer Ayres
(2 messages posted)
Thanks for your ideas. I got rid of netscape and am using internet explorer and
that seemed to get
rid of the problem. I've always used netscape but
I don't like it as much as before so I've given in and will use explorer.
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re: Question about 'Change a file association on the fly'
Saturday, September 29, 2001 at 11:59 am
Posted by Joven
(7 messages posted)
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
On Thursday, September 20, 2001 at 4:52 pm, Jennifer Ayres wrote:
>I have a question about Change
>a file association on the fly:
>
>
>I right-clicked but the 'open with' option was grayed out. I iinadvertently selected
>open with Notepad on an ASP file that was in an attachment. Now, the browser opens,
>but so does Notepad.
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re: Question about 'Change a file association on the fly'
Wednesday, October 1, 2003 at 2:06 am
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
>
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re: Question about 'Change a file association on the fly'
Thursday, January 6, 2005 at 12:33 am
Posted by toadpole
(1 messages posted)
This happens possibly if the file has no extension, or for .EXE, .COM, etc. files.
On Wednesday, October 1, 2003 at 2:06 am, Ben wrote:
>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?.
>
>
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re: Question about 'Change a file association on the fly'
Tuesday, August 9, 2005 at 7:17 pm
Posted by 2damntall
(1 messages posted)
The ability to change file associations is not always enabled by default.
To enable/disable your ability to change file associations you need to edit a key
in the registry:
1. Start a registry editor (e.g., regedit.exe).
2. Navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer
registry subkey to configure the computer for all users or navigate to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies
registry subkey to configure the computer for the current user. If either subkey
doesn't exist, open the Edit menu and select New, Key to create it.
3. From the Edit menu, select New, DWORD Value.
4. Enter the name NoFileAssociate.
5. Set the value to 1 to disable the user's ability to change file associations (this
setting doesn't affect Power Users and Administrators); a value of 0 or a missing
value enables the user's ability to change file associations.
6. Click OK.
7. Close the registry editor.
8. Restart the computer for the changes to take effect.
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re: Question about 'Change a file association on the fly'
Sunday, October 9, 2005 at 3:30 pm
Posted by Nick Guy
(1 messages posted)
Another trick from the old days, to deal with the fact that even if you can change
the file types there is no option for is to simply add a . as an extension (folder
options/file types)
and then define whatever program you want to open files without an extension.
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re: Question about 'Change a file association on the fly'
Monday, December 19, 2005 at 2:22 am
Posted by bas
(1 messages posted)
Super, you just save my life, it works ;o))
On Tuesday, August 9, 2005 at 7:17 pm, 2damntall wrote:
>The ability to change file associations is not always enabled by default.
>To enable/disable your ability to change file associations you need to edit a key
>in the registry:
>
>1. Start a registry editor (e.g., regedit.exe).
>2. Navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer
>registry subkey to configure the computer for all users or navigate to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies
>registry subkey to configure the computer for the current user. If either subkey
>doesn't exist, open the Edit menu and select New, Key to create it.
>3. From the Edit menu, select New, DWORD Value.
>4. Enter the name NoFileAssociate.
>5. Set the value to 1 to disable the user's ability to change file associations
(this
>setting doesn't affect Power Users and Administrators); a value of 0 or a missing
>value enables the user's ability to change file associations.
>6. Click OK.
>7. Close the registry editor.
>8. Restart the computer for the changes to take effect.
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