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re: File associations not being saved Friday, June 26, 2009 at 8:53 am Posted by druggas (14 messages posted) Don't know if this has been asked. Did you add on any new programs right before you had this problem? I have switched to Firefox but I can't Outlook Express to work. I tried "Get Mail" but it didn't work either. Anyone know of a program that I can d/load that will work? Or, how to make O.E. work in Firefox. On Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 2:48 pm, Paul Kruger wrote: >I have some file associations that stopped working, such as .html, .htm, .swf etc. > I have reset them in the folder options / file types but they are not being saved. > When I click on those files, it just warns me there is no program associated with >that file type. Nothing I do will result in them being remembered and I have to >constantly use the "open with" option which is annoying. Does not seem to have affected >all associations however. > >Any ideas welcome ! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: File associations not being saved Friday, June 26, 2009 at 9:10 am Posted by druggas (14 messages posted) Can you go back to a restore point? On Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 2:48 pm, Paul Kruger wrote: >I have some file associations that stopped working, such as .html, .htm, .swf etc. > I have reset them in the folder options / file types but they are not being saved. > When I click on those files, it just warns me there is no program associated with >that file type. Nothing I do will result in them being remembered and I have to >constantly use the "open with" option which is annoying. Does not seem to have affected >all associations however. > >Any ideas welcome ! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: File associations not being saved Friday, June 26, 2009 at 10:34 am Posted by Paul Kruger (21 messages posted) Sorry I can't. sigh! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: File associations not being saved Friday, June 26, 2009 at 10:36 am Posted by Paul Kruger (21 messages posted) Here is the chain of events that led up to this. I don't know that they are related however. Thunderbird email did an automatic update that had a bug ( in the updater not the actual update ) that caused the right click "sendto mail" link to stop working. Several patches were tried to fix that with no luck so far. One suggestion was to manually download the new version and install that which I did. It did not fix the right click problem ( discussed in another thread here ). In the normal course of things while working I later tried to click on a file to open an application and it did not work. I have discovered several associations that quit working, though most seem ok. ( I have not tested all ). In any event, trying to recreate the associations does not work....they are lost once I close the dialog box to set them in the Folder Options menu. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: File associations not being saved Friday, June 26, 2009 at 12:15 pm Posted by druggas (14 messages posted) Do you have a Win2000 disk? You can do a repair and not lose any data. On Friday, June 26, 2009 at 10:34 am, Paul Kruger wrote: >Sorry I can't. sigh! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: File associations not being saved Friday, June 26, 2009 at 1:19 pm Posted by Paul Kruger (21 messages posted) Yes I may have to resort to that...sigh [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: File associations not being saved Friday, June 26, 2009 at 5:23 pm Posted by Ms. Eagle (33507 messages posted) My response is probably more applicable to this thread. Check for malware infections... http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win2000/1246059313 Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: File associations not being saved Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 8:35 am Posted by Paul Kruger (21 messages posted) Two infections have been removed. Still can't save some file extensions. One in particular is an issue .msi because it won't allow me to install anything delivered as an .msi package. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: File associations not being saved Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 1:04 pm Posted by Paul Kruger (21 messages posted) I did a recovery from Win2K install disk. I reset the .html and .htm file extensions to default and when I click the they open in IE. When I go back to edit those in the Folder Settings /File associations window and change them to open with Firefox they won't open. I still get the error that there is no program associated with that file type. There is...it is lying to me! The icon for that file type is even changed to the Firefox icon so how would the icon change if Windows was not locating the Firefox directory when I changed associations? When I look again in the setup for that file type it shows that Firefox.exe is set. What gives? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: File associations not being saved Monday, July 20, 2009 at 1:06 am Posted by NigelHH (1176 messages posted) Can't you just Right-Click, select "Open With", select Firefox.exe and tick the checkbox that says "Always use this program to open these files" (Note: I seem to remember sometimes you have to use shift+right-click to be able to select Open With) Or just set Firefox to be your default browser? Changing the Folder View associations is not recommended... 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