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One more thing
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 7:34 am
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Posted by Ricer46 (22024 messages posted)


You still should enable the viewing of file extensions as I described previously. 
Seeing them is very helpful. M$ should never have hidden them. Hiding them can cause 
more confusion.






On Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 7:23 am, Ricer46 wrote:
>Yeah, you had to look it up. You can not associate files with no file extension.
>Windows has always depended on the file extension to know which app is supposed to
>be used. Your problem can be fixed by adding an appropriate file extension to each
>of the files. You may have to experiment a bit, but if you want them to load into
>Quicktime, I think you can add a .qt file extension.
>
>This would have been a whole lot easier and quicker had you just answered the questions
>instead of trying to bluff your way through.
>
>
>



Written in response to:
I thought so... (Ricer46: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 7:23 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: One more thing (Adam Bradley: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 8:17 am)

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-Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 6:56 am)
-re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Steve: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 7:56 am)
-re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 11:36 am)
-re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Ricer46: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 12:14 pm)
-re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 12:53 pm)
-re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Ricer46: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 2:12 pm)
-re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 2:16 pm)
*re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Ricer46: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 3:03 pm)
-re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Steve: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 4:29 pm)
-re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 9:45 pm)
-re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Ricer46: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 12:08 am)
-re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 1:42 am)
*re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 3:29 am)
-I thought so... (Ricer46: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 7:23 am)
-One more thing (Ricer46: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 7:34 am)
-re: One more thing (Adam Bradley: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 8:17 am)
*re: One more thing (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 9:02 am)
*re: One more thing (Ricer46: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 9:42 am)
-re: I thought so... (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 8:56 am)
-lol (Ricer46: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 9:37 am)
-re: lol (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 10:57 am)
-re: lol (Ricer46: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 11:40 am)
-re: lol (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 3:05 pm)
*re: lol (Ricer46: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 5:51 pm)
-And... (Ricer46: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 6:04 pm)
-re: And... (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 11:31 pm)
-re: And... (Ricer46: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 5:30 am)
-re: And... (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 5:53 am)
-re: And... (Ricer46: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 9:05 am)
-re: And... (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 10:10 am)
*re: And... (Ricer46: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 10:41 am)
*re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Steve: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 5:26 am)
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