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?

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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?
>

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HC, Late last night, I managed to get that right click option to work, but only within Explorer. It still didn't help. All of the settings were correct within the browser, folder options, and registry, but Windows refused a response to them. Then I noticed that Explorer no longer displayed the contents of my C drive, ACDC had taken over without prompting. This convinced me that something more sinister was going on, so I backed up important files and ran GoBack to roll the system back. It refused to work. Then I used MS 'System Restore', and it rolled back far enough to revert to a time before whatever caused this corruption. What a relief to see my HTML files associated with my browser of choice again! Some solutions are not so easy to resolve through options, I've learned.


On Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 11:05 am, HC wrote:

>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 
>
>

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I am glad to hear you seem to have resolved your problem for now but would ask why 
you feel you need to have Goback on your XP system, this software in my limited experience 
using it, is very system intrusive, 
in that it makes changes to system files and interupts the boot sequence, and as 
you say in your latest post it did not work where XPs restore feature did,so in my 
humble opinion I think it may just be one possible cause of your problems and if 
it did not work when you needed it not worth the hard drive space 

Cheers HC 






On Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 1:07 pm, Lynn wrote:
>
>HC,
>Late last night, I managed to get that right click option to work, but only within 
>Explorer. It still didn't help. All of the settings were correct within the browser, 
>folder options, and registry, but Windows refused a response to them. Then I noticed 
>that Explorer no longer displayed the contents of my C drive, ACDC had taken over 
>without prompting. This convinced me that something more sinister was going on, 
so 
>I backed up important files and ran GoBack to roll the system back. It refused to 
>work. Then I used MS 'System Restore', and it rolled back far enough to revert to 
>a time before whatever caused this corruption. What a relief to see my HTML files 
>associated with my browser of choice again! Some solutions are not so easy to resolve 
>through options, I've learned.
>
>

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Point taken, however there was another incident when GoBack worked when 'System Restore' would not. GoBack might have come preinstalled on my system, and if not was part of the software package that came with my system. Beforehand, I'd never heard of it. Having had problems with 'System Restore' when using WinME, my opinion of it's dependability was low. I had to learn of GoBack's intrusive nature the hard way. I've learned how to prevent GoBack from deleting files, knowing which one's are affected. I keep it around just on the off chance that 'System Restore' fails. In this particular incident, I had no faith in 'System Restore' since it failed to work the last time I attempted to use it, which brought on deja vu of WinME past.


On Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 2:42 pm, HC wrote:

>I am glad to hear you seem to have resolved your problem for now but would ask why 
>you feel you need to have Goback on your XP system, this software in my limited 
experience 
>using it, is very system intrusive, 
>in that it makes changes to system files and interupts the boot sequence, and as 
>you say in your latest post it did not work where XPs restore feature did,so in 
my 
>humble opinion I think it may just be one possible cause of your problems and if 
>it did not work when you needed it not worth the hard drive space 
>
>Cheers HC 
>
>

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