Re: IE should not open this file type

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From: bosse (pakten_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/07/04 

Date: 7 Nov 2004 12:15:42 -0800

Thanks! but:
 
PGN-files still opens (as text) by IE when I click on them on
Internet. On other computers they are opened by the PGN-viewer (chess)
on the computer. When I double-click a PGN-file on the harddisk on the
computer in question it opens fine in the PGN-viewer!

Kind regards
Bosse

"Hans Le Roy" <hlrNO@SPAMmvps.org> wrote in message news:<et59Ob0wEHA.2172@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl>...
> Hi bosse,
>
> No need for another file type for the same extension. I think changing the
> default app for that filetype would do. You can ctrl+click on such a file,
> Open with, select the application you want and check [x] Always use...
>
> Kind regards
>
> Hans Le Roy
> MS MVP Win/IE-OE
>
> "bosse" <pakten@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:abdf509a.0411041036.34144b5f@posting.google.com...
> > When i click a .pgn file in IE6 it opens it (as text). I want another
> > program to open the file. .pgn was not in Windows Explorer | Tools |
> > Folder Options | File Types, so I made a new file type and associated
> > it with the other program.
> > It works allright on the computer, but if I click a .pgn-file in IE,
> > then it is still opened (as text) in the browser window