re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types'
Friday, December 5, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Arminius
(119 messages posted)
This problem was posted three years ago but this thread was recently linked to from
another thread hence the late response.
I had exactly the same problem with the file associations changing from ACRORD32.EXE
to ACROREAD.EXE several years earlier. In my case the earlier version of Acrobat
Reader I had installed previously was 2.1 and I was by then using version 5.0.
Acrobat Reader 2.1 did not come with an uninstall routine so the changes made during
installation were not undone when the program was removed (deleted).
While looking into the problem I found an entry in the WIN.INI file which read:
[Extentions]
PDF=C:\ACROREAD\ACROREAD.EXE ^.PDF
This clearly refered to an earlier installation with the default installation directory
of C:\ACROREAD. I removed the line "PDF=C:\ACROREAD\ACROREAD.EXE ^.PDF" from WIN.INI
and once gone I no longer had the problem the file association changing from ACRORD32.EXE
back to ACROREAD.EXE. Problem solved. Evidently entries in the WIN.INI file can override
the registry.
(I reinstalled Acroread 2.1 for the purpose of this reply to make sure I got the
entry in the WIN.INI file correct.)
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