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John Fodor - 25 Aug 2004 02:44 GMT
Yesterday I could open up all my photo JPG icons. Today
the  JPG icons on all photos stored in "My Documents"
suddenly changed from regular icon to the
Microsoft "flag," and now I can not open any of
these files. When I double click on the icon I get the  
following message:  "this file does not have a program
associated with it for performing this action.
How can the icons be changed back to the original jpg icon
so that they can be opened?

John Fodor
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Ron Badour - 25 Aug 2004 02:52 GMT
Reinstall your photo viewer program.  If you don't have one:  Irfanview:  A
very good freeware graphics viewer:  http://www.irfanview.com/

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> Yesterday I could open up all my photo JPG icons. Today
> the  JPG icons on all photos stored in "My Documents"
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> John Fodor
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Andrew H. Carter - 25 Aug 2004 03:01 GMT

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>Yesterday I could open up all my photo JPG icons. Today
>the  JPG icons on all photos stored in "My Documents"
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>
>John Fodor

Download TweakUI and choose Repair file associations, you'll
then have to reboot.

System Requirements
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http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/powertoys/networking/nttweakui.asp

System Requirements
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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

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Ron Badour - 26 Aug 2004 01:25 GMT
Depending on the particular machine, this could be a bad recommendation.
Repairing associations restores the default associations for all common file
types.  This could undo many custom software associations on the machine.
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On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 18:44:54 -0700, "John Fodor"
<johnfodor@cox.net> scribbled some thoughts:

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>Yesterday I could open up all my photo JPG icons. Today
>the  JPG icons on all photos stored in "My Documents"
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
>
>John Fodor

Download TweakUI and choose Repair file associations, you'll
then have to reboot.

System Requirements
Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows Millennium Edition,
Windows 98 or Windows 95.

http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/powertoys/networking/nttweakui.asp

System Requirements
Windows XP

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

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glee - 27 Aug 2004 03:29 GMT
It also removes all custom context menu items when doing a right-click on a file.
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> Depending on the particular machine, this could be a bad recommendation.
> Repairing associations restores the default associations for all common file
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> Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows Millennium Edition,
> Windows 98 or Windows 95.

http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/powertoys/networking/nttweakui.asp

> System Requirements
> Windows XP
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Andrew H. Carter - 27 Aug 2004 07:37 GMT

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>Depending on the particular machine, this could be a bad recommendation.
>Repairing associations restores the default associations for all common file
>types.  This could undo many custom software associations on the machine.

Wouldn't that be program specific?  IIRC, I've done that
before and since I use WinAmp as my default media player,
from what you state, the types should revert back to the
Windows Media Player, though WinAmp I suppose circumvents
that by having the check boxes.  Xnview is the same.  I'll
have to repair associations to verify, but I'm pretty sure
that's the case.

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Ron Badour - 27 Aug 2004 17:25 GMT
Once you return the associations to their default settings, some programs
can probably then take over the association again--it would depend on how
the application was programmed.

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> have to repair associations to verify, but I'm pretty sure
> that's the case.
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