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Clickable "Open" file stops working / File associations list?
1. Sometimes, in Windows Explorer, the clickable "Open" function
stops working, notably with files like htm files but sometimes with even txt files. I double-click and nothing happens. Not big files, less than 100kb, short names. Just all of sudden, the clickable open functions stops working and the right-context menu no longer offers Open or Open With. Actually, those options disappear in the IE File Menu at the time too. Instead, to view the stupid file, I have to open the IE browser or Notepad or whatever, and use the application menu to find and Open the file on my hard drive. It is so irritating. Right now, for example, all of a sudden I cannot click on any htm file and open it unless my browser is already open. I can, however, click on and open txt files. Most of the time, I can double-click any file and it opens right up. It is annoying to have it just out of the blue stop working on certain files for a while. This condition disappears too. Probably after a reboot tho I havent actually paid enough attention to test that. It is just today that got so annoyed with this happening that I want to know why it does this and whether I can repair the problem without having to reboot. My mouse seems to be working otherwise, I can select and move and all that. It's that the files won't open. 2. Somewhat related. How can I see a list of all the files types associated with given applications? It's impossible to do this in Folder Options. For one thing, all the file types are not even listed. In fact, many of the most common ones are not. Htm, for example. If I use the add/new function to "add" the htm extension to the display list, THEN folder options tells me that htm is being used by Netscape Markup. l don't even use the Netscape browser and so far as I know, don't even have it on my system. It's not in the Programs listed in Control Panel. Why is that extension (and html) reserved for Netscape? I use Internet Explorer. |
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Since no one responded to my post, I am --for anyone else having the
same problem -- posting the solution I finally found. The problem was that suddenly I could no longer left-click-open certain documents, notably htm/html files. I was forced to first open the browser and open the document via the browser menu. When I right-clicked on an htm file, the context menu did not offer the "Open with" option. Folder Options rebuffed me, saying the htm/html extensions were assigned to Netscape; it would not let me edit those file associations. I don't have (nor do I want) Netscape browseri nstalled, so the files could not open in Netscape. Here's the fix that worked: Select an htm document, and then hold down the shift key while right-clicking. This brings up a context menu that does have the "Open with" option. On the program list that came up, I selected Internet Explorer, checked the box that said "Always use this program to open this kind of file" and then clicked "OK." So far, so good. I can once again click-open htm & html documents without having to go the long way of starting up the browser and opening the file from the menu. |
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