Changing the "open with" option.

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Phil

I made a mistake and selected the worng program for a file
to be opened with. I am working with an old dos based
program. It actually should not associated with anything.
How do I get it back to opening with "unknown application"

Thanks in advance
 
An example from a command prompt;
assoc .zzz=
would remove all file type association for extension .zzz

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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| I made a mistake and selected the worng program for a file
| to be opened with. I am working with an old dos based
| program. It actually should not associated with anything.
| How do I get it back to opening with "unknown application"
|
| Thanks in advance
 
You could go to Tools > Folder Options in Explorer, click on the File Types
tab, and scroll down to the extension in question you would like to
unassociate. Deleting the entry should unassociate that particular file
extension with any program.

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-----Original Message-----
I made a mistake and selected the worng program for a file
to be opened with. I am working with an old dos based
program. It actually should not associated with anything.
How do I get it back to opening with "unknown application"

Thanks in advance
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Go to the folder where the app resides, right click it,
Click to expand...
select the properties and select "Change".
You may have to remove the association and thats listed in
another thread.
I am pasting it in here, I hope this is not against policy.


From a command prompt;
assoc .htaccess=
to remove the file type association.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in
newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
MCP [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect.
 
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