re: And... Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 10:41 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ricer46 (22019 messages posted) Now you're being nitpicky, because you made it clear that question was the short term goal so that you could double click a file and open it, that's the whole point of file associations. Changing the status of the gray box, would NOT have permitted you to associate files that had no file extension. You were never going to create your desired file associations, regardless of the status of the check box. On Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 10:10 am, Reuven Ben-Daniel wrote: >When you go to the page "Open with" and you chose the program, at the bottom of the >page ,it states 'Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" To agree, > the box must be ticked. If the box is ticked it means that this type of file will >open without adding the extension each time. So I am saying the box must be in a >position to be ticked. So the status of the box is NOT irrelevant. The whole purpose >of my original question was how to make the box available for ticking or not. Read >my first posting. > > Written in response to: re: And... (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 10:10 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] 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) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum