Re: How to avoid the "Windows cannot open this file" dialog
- From: "Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 19:58:17 -0600
Skip the file association Web service dialog while opening a unknown file
type
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/nowebservice.htm
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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In news:BF83943D-DBC2-4EAB-8B97-7484109B68EF@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Dave W <Dave W@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
Is there a way to stop the obnoxious "Windows cannot open this file"
dialog from popping up when selecting and unknown extension and cause
Windows to always choose a program from the list? I NEVER EVER want to
attempt to surf the web to find a program to open a file and I would like
to avoid this obnoxious and unnecessary step caused by this dialog
(really obnoxious because it defaults to search the web). I know how to
do this for any particular file extension, I would like to a) turn it off
for ANY unknown extension, and more importantly b) turn it off for files
that don't have an extension. I unfortunately have several programs
which generate various extensionless files (which must remain
extensionless for the apps to work); since they are just text files, I'd
rather associate notepad or textpad with them so I can quickly view them;
even having the program list pop up by default would be okay.
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