Lost File Association?

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Earl D. Lucas

I think I've managed to lose a file association and don't know how to get
it back.

Here is what happens:

I have a local televison news station's desktop news/weather program
running "behind the scenes", i.e., in my desktop tray. If I right-click
on its icon, a menu appears with selections dealing with news, radar,
school closings, etc. If I select, for example, "school closings",
Internet Explorer will pop up with the letter "M" listed in its title bar
across the top of its window and I am looking at a blank Internet Explorer
page. I know that what should happen is IE should open with a webpage
from that station. (I know this for a fact because that is what happens
on another computer of mine.)

I used that desktop news/weather program as one example, but this happens
at other times. It seems that if one program is calling Internet Explorer
to do something, IE starts but doesn't find what it is supposed to.

Appreciate any help.
Earl
 
Try this: "How to Restore the Operating System to a Previous State in
Windows XP" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306084).
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I appreciate the answer but I think that might be overkill for my
situation (although I will remember it). I think it's a matter of
adjusting a setting in the "file types" somewhere. Since my original
posting, I've found another program which does the same thing: calls up
Internet Explorer with a blank page instead of the intended page.
 
Go to control panel ---folder options---file types---highlight extension
and change to anything you want.
 
I know how to do that but, again, repeating myself, the opening of
Internet Explorer (which is the correctly associated program, I think) is
not the problem...that opens fine. The problem is that IE opens with a
blank page, not the intended page.
 
What do you have set as a starting page in Internet Options??
Earl D. Lucas said:
I know how to do that but, again, repeating myself, the opening of
Internet Explorer (which is the correctly associated program, I think) is
not the problem...that opens fine. The problem is that IE opens with a
blank page, not the intended page.
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SOLVED!

I have no idea how it happened but somehow one of the file types settings
had been changed. The one for URL - Hypertext Transfer Protocol was
incorrectly listed. It had IE down as the program but for some reason
there was a "-nohome" added to the end of the line. Once I erased that,
things now look good.

And, by the way, it is not that I have IE opening with a blank page...so
happens that my starting page is my.yahoo.com.


What do you have set as a starting page in Internet Options??
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