And... Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 6:04 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ricer46 (22820 messages posted) while you asked how to get the box "ungrayed," it was clear that what you wanted was to be able to open a file by double clicking on it. Once you added the file extension, the boxes were still gray, but the box was now checked, making your need to "ungray" the box irrelevant. On Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 3:05 pm, Reuven Ben-Daniel wrote: > >The box is still greyed out.And I had to rename 150 files individually to add the >same file extension. As you are such an expert, if you googled on the 'box being >greyed out', it is a XP safe guard to prevent unauthorised alteration of file associations. >And you have to enter the registry to alter a 1 to 0, and make the box no longer >greyed out But it apparently, according to pages of forums,does not always work. >And the forums include very many people asking the same question. The box should >be open before you make any associations. I don't find your remarks insulting but >childish.Why don't you just admit that you do not know the answer to my original >question on restoring the box without being greyed out? That is the question I asked. > > > > Written in response to: re: lol (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 3:05 pm) Responses to this message: re: And... (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 11:31 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 6:56 am) re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Steve: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 7:56 am) re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 11:36 am) re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Ricer46: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 12:14 pm) re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 12:53 pm) re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Ricer46: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 2:12 pm) re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 2:16 pm) re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Ricer46: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 3:03 pm) re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Steve: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 4:29 pm) re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 9:45 pm) re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Ricer46: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 12:08 am) re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 1:42 am) re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 3:29 am) I thought so... (Ricer46: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 7:23 am) One more thing (Ricer46: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 7:34 am) re: One more thing (Adam Bradley: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 8:17 am) re: One more thing (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 9:02 am) re: One more thing (Ricer46: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 9:42 am) re: I thought so... (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 8:56 am) lol (Ricer46: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 9:37 am) re: lol (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 10:57 am) re: lol (Ricer46: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 11:40 am) re: lol (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 3:05 pm) re: lol (Ricer46: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 5:51 pm) And... (Ricer46: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 6:04 pm) re: And... (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 11:31 pm) re: And... (Ricer46: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 5:30 am) re: And... (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 5:53 am) re: And... (Ricer46: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 9:05 am) re: And... (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 10:10 am) re: And... (Ricer46: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 10:41 am) re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Steve: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 5:26 am) 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