Re: set association control panel
- From: virgoanfairy <virgoanfairy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:19:01 -0700
I have the same message coming up for exe files as wwell as everything else.
I dont have run as admin or open with options on my right mouse clik menu
anymore. I wish i knew what to do - been looking all over the internet for 2
days now.i have the net and luckily my emails ok , have deleted about 50% of
my data but still happens help meee!! aaaah
"Grem" wrote:
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"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:35:01 -0700, sandra smith wrote:
when trying to open an attachment in my emails
the message"this file does not have a programe
associated with it for performing this action.
create an association in the set association
control panel" can you please tell where to find
what I'm looking for. thanking you regards sandy
That message is a very poor and misleading one. Almost invariably,
when you get that message, it simply means that you don't have
installed an appropriate program to run that particular kind of file.
The reason the misleading message is displayed is that when you
install a program, the installation creates something called an
"association" between the program and the extension (the last three
characters of the file name, after the dot) or extensions that the
program is designed to handle.
So, for example, if you install Microsoft Excel, an association will
be created between Excel and the extension .xls. The result is that if
you try to open an .xls file, Windows will look at that association
and know that it should use Excel to open it.
If it can't find an association for .xls files, it's either because
Excel or some compatible program hasn't been installed, or the
association has somehow become lost or damaged. So it displays the
message it does, assuming that the association is missing, although
it's far more likely that you just don't have the right program
installed.
So, almost certainly, you simply don't have the right program
installed to view the file you received. For more specific help, tell
us what the extension of the file is.
By the way, I'll add my customary warning about opening such
attachments:
Opening such attachments is very risky. You often see advice not to
open attachments from people you don't know. I think that that's one
of the most dangerous pieces of advice you see around, because it
implies that it's safe to do the opposite--open attachments from
friends and relatives. But many viruses spread by sending themselves
to everyone in the infected party's address book, so attachments
received from friends are perhaps the *most* risky to open.
Even if the attachment legitimately comes from a friend, it can
contain a virus. I'm not suggesting that a friend is likely to send
you a virus on purpose, but if the friend is infected without
realizing it, any attachment he sends you is likely to also be
infected.
Personally I never open attachments at all, except from a *very* few
trusted sources, and then only when I'm expecting them.
--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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When I plug my card in I get the message:
"This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this
action. create an association in set association control panel".
The auto-play box no longer appears. In the error message box there is no
clue as to what the file is, therefore when you go to the 'set association
control panel' there is no reference to F:/.
I've downloaded thousands of images previously via the Windows Live photo
Gallery in Auto-play and as the other poster noted, this error seems only to
have occurred after a Windows update.
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