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Windows Forum / Windows 98 / Software / October 2005File associations
Ok i have a problem... Every program i have on my computer now opens with wordpad. I can't figure out how to change them back so they open properly. All i can see on word pad is a bunch of cymbals and numbers and the only thing i can actually read is "this file can not be opened in dos. mode" What do i do? is there a way to open the files with there default file associations? Please help me i cant do crap on my computer! See if you can do this: Make up a file from the lines below. Copy into a file called fix.reg which should be created in Notepad. Do not retype, copy in case of errors. The 1st line in the file is the line REGEDIT4 The last line must be blank. Make sure your mail or news reader does not add any spaces to the end of a line. Doubleclick to restore the association. -----copy below this line fix.reg------------ REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe] @="exefile" "Content Type"="application/x-msdownload" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile] @="Application" "EditFlags"=hex:d8,07,00,00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell] @="" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open] @="" "EditFlags"=hex:00,00,00,00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command] @="\"%1\" %*" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\{86F19A00-42A0-1069-A2E9-08002B30309D}] @="" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\DefaultIcon] @="%1" ---- end file above here ...Alan -- Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer http://dts-l.org/index.html >Ok i have a problem... Every program i have on my computer now >opens with wordpad. I can't figure out how to change them back so they [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >with there default file associations? Please help me i cant do crap on >my computer! hey thanks for the advice, i dont think i can do that though cuse im not really sure what your talking about cuse im not that great with computers can you explain how to do this for someone like me? Alanedwards wrote: > See if you can do this: > [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] > >with there default file associations? Please help me i cant do crap on > >my computer! oh ok i got it... after i do that and save it as fix.reg then what do i do? Follow the instructions and double-click it. ...Alan -- Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer http://dts-l.org/index.html >oh ok i got it... after i do that and save it as fix.reg then what do i >do? what instructions? I made the file and saved it as fix.reg. What do i double click? You double click fix.reg ...Alan -- Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer http://dts-l.org/index.html >what instructions? I made the file and saved it as fix.reg. What do i >double click? ok well i tried that it pulled up an error message that said ... Cannot import C:\documents and Settings\User\My Documents\fix.reg: The specified file is not a registry script. You can only imprt binary registry files from with the registry editor. Now what do i do? You tried what? First you quote messages so I know what you are talking about. Second, you try again and ensure you have done it correctly but try moving fix.reg to a folder with no spaces in the name or open Regedit.exe and import the file. I can't recall seeing that error message in Win98. Are you really using XP instead? ...Alan -- Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer http://dts-l.org/index.html >ok well i tried that it pulled up an error message that said ... > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Now what do i do? Im not using win98. Im using windows xp. Questions about Windows XP should be asked in a newsgroup associated with XP - if you ask your questions in a Windows 98 newsgroup people will assume you are using Windows 98 and there is a risk that you will receive inappropriate advice.  SignatureJeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) > Im not using win98. Im using windows xp. |
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