Malcolm Reeves said:
A bit off topic but in my file associations (XP Home) I seem to have
entries like:
.avi
.avi"
.inc
.inc"
.lib
.lib"
.mpe"
.mpg
is the " on these file extensions correct? Or has something messed it
up? I can't seem to get zoom player to start when I double click a
.avi etc. in explorer. .avi" is set to acrobat which doesn't seem
right at all :-(.
This has been bugging me. The thing is that I had the same symptom. It was
about two years ago. I didn't know the cause. Since you posted, I've been
wracking my imagination on what brings about that symptom, but did not get
on to any solid theories. (Further, a search is very hard. Local file finder
utils, and then worse is web search, since how do you have that right quote
character as part of the find string..)
Anyway, when I found the entries on my system that are like those you have,
the .xxx", I deleted the screwy ones. Or renamed to the proper form; I don't
recall the details. The essence of what you need to be sure about is to make
sure that the value for an extension key matches up to a filetype key name.
So before you delete .avi", make sure that the correctly named key, .avi, has
the same value entries. That its default value entry points to a filetype. In
this example, the filetype might be named "movfile" or "avifile," but can be
named anything. The filetype key will then have the needed action references
pointing to local programs that are associated with it.
My description of what to look for, it comes out sounding fogged up, I know.
It would be better if I knew what interface you were using to view the goofed
keys. A file associations editor? A windows dialog? A registry editor?
D
, just your post).