re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 11:05 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by HC (935 messages posted) Try highlight the file with single left click, then right click while holding down the shift key,hopefully your open with option will be there Cheers HC On Wednesday, May 1, 2002 at 7:40 pm, Lynn wrote: >I have a question about Prevent >Programs From Changing Your File Types: > >I never had a problem changing file associations by following commonly recommended >instructions until Internet Explorer started taking file association control in Windows >XP. I've tried going into 'folder options' and changing program control for selected >file extensions with no result. The 'apply' button there was grayed out, also. I've >tried doing what I always have in these situations, right click and then 'open with', >but that option is no longer avaliable when I right click on the file. What more >can I do? Anyone have recommendations that do not require going into the registry >or reinstalling Windows? > Written in response to: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (Lynn: Wednesday, May 1, 2002 at 7:40 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (Lynn: Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 1:07 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (Lynn: Wed, May 1, 2002, 7:40 pm) re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (HC: Thu, May 2, 2002, 11:05 am) re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (Lynn: Thu, May 2, 2002, 1:07 pm) re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (HC: Thu, May 2, 2002, 2:42 pm) re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (Lynn: Thu, May 2, 2002, 3:32 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 XP Discussion Forum