File type and the edit function

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Big_Al

Am I going crazy? I went into tools-> folder options-> view->
filetypes and picked a file type like HTML. I could have sworn years
ago there was the ability to change the different functions like edit or
open. I want open to be my browser but edit to be something other than
office 2007's word.
 
Use this search term in Google:

how to change the default html editor in internet explorer
 
Big_Al said:
Am I going crazy? I went into tools-> folder options-> view->
filetypes and picked a file type like HTML. I could have sworn years
ago there was the ability to change the different functions like edit or
open.
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Do you get an "Advanced" button? I'll admit that sometimes I see it,
sometimes I don't (That's also the difference between a joke and a girl
getting out of a car).
If you see it, that's where the settings are. You can sometimes make the
"Advanced" button appear by fiddling with other settings.
 
Swifty said this on 2/8/2009 4:39 AM:
Do you get an "Advanced" button? I'll admit that sometimes I see it,
sometimes I don't (That's also the difference between a joke and a girl
getting out of a car).
If you see it, that's where the settings are. You can sometimes make the
"Advanced" button appear by fiddling with other settings.
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No Advanced button, its set to 'restore'. Odd though, I'm using
Firefox, and its set currently to use firefox, I see the right FF icon,
and yet the help says, hit restore to reset it back to a firefox
document. If I look at HTM, the 'restore' button now says 'advanced'
as you (and I) thought it should be.
I'll pursue other options then, maybe regedit. I'm searching google
and finding hits, and I might just hit 'reset' and then use the advanced
to edit away!

I'm gone.
 
Leonard Grey said this on 2/7/2009 12:37 PM:
Use this search term in Google:

how to change the default html editor in internet explorer
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Actually its not IE that I want to use and this search implies IE and
this all seemed wrong to me. I tried your search and I would say its
wrong, but.... After trying one suggestion in regedit and still no
luck, I did use the 'tools' route in IE and change the default HTML
editor program via IE. And now in *Windows Explorer*, the 'edit'
option on the right click does open my html editor I want.
 
The setting in question, that defines how a filetype is treated by the
"filetypes" tab in Folder Options, is in RegEdit. Each filetype has a
corresponding key, and under that key there is sometimes a value - EditFlags
which can be Dword or Binary. For instance; if the Binary value "EditFlags"
is set to 01 00 00 00 the file will not appear listed in the filetypes at
all! (like .dll files for instance) and various settings of this value have
various consequences in explorer's FileTypes list box.

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham.
 
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