Re: can't run .js script

From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 10/09/04 

Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 16:03:25 +0100

Kurt Krueckeberg wrote:

> I need to run a .js script. But when I try to run it, from Windows
>Explorer, a Notepad edit session starts instead. How do I get it to run? .js
>scripts used to work, but somehow the program association has been broken,
>and I don't know how to get it back.

Try a right click and take Open. What has probably happened is that the
default on double click has been changed to Edit - a common setting as
it makes things considerably safer; scripts being very powerful tools.

If that does the trick, you can restore Run (Open) as the default,
though I would *not* advise it. Go to Folder Options - File Types,
highlight JS (which will have 'Opens with NotePad) and click Advanced.
There highlight Open and click Default to set that as default 

-- 
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)

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