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RE: 'Open with' -> 'Choose Program...' Opens a Notepad for all file types

RichieUK — Mon, 12 May 2008 05:14:14 GMT

[quote]If possible can u tell me how this could have been caused, so that i can avoid it in future.[/quote]
Not sure,possibly caused by any registry cleaners you may be using,possibly spyware.
Post back into this topic if it happens again,we'll then dig a little deeper.

RE: 'Open with' -> 'Choose Program...' Opens a Notepad for all file types

chat_patta — Mon, 12 May 2008 05:03:40 GMT

[b]RichieUK[/b] man that was a real fast solution. And i had followed your solutions to other users, and hence had that much confidence that i did not save my registry settings before implementing your changes. Hats off to your technical abilities.

It worked like a charm. Cant thank you enough.

If possible can u tell me how this could have been caused, so that i can avoid it in future.

Best regards.

RE: 'Open with' -> 'Choose Program...' Opens a Notepad for all file types

RichieUK — Mon, 12 May 2008 04:40:35 GMT

Welcome:)
Copy and paste ALL the following text in the Quote box below into [b]Notepad[/b].
Click on File(in the menu at the top)>Save as../Save as Type: 'All Files' /File name: [b]fix.reg[/b] to your desktop.
Then double click on the [b]fix.reg[/b] file on your desktop[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v624/29wood/Clipboard01reg.gif[/IMG]and agree to merge the information into the registry,[b]then restart your pc[/b].

[quote]REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Unknown]
"AlwaysShowExt"=""
"QueryClassStore"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Unknown\shell]
@="openas"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Unknown\shell\openas]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Unknown\shell\openas\command]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,72,00,75,00,\
6e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,20,00,25,00,53,\
00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,\
79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,00,68,00,65,00,6c,00,6c,\
00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,4f,00,70,00,65,00,6e,00,41,00,\
73,00,5f,00,52,00,75,00,6e,00,44,00,4c,00,4c,00,20,00,25,00,31,00,00,00[/quote]

'Open with' -> 'Choose Program...' Opens a Notepad for all file types

chat_patta — Mon, 12 May 2008 04:23:28 GMT

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Hi Gurus: :)

I am running on Desktop, Win XP Professional, [b]SP3[/b] Ver:5.1.2600.5512

Till yesterday this option worked fine, today only i noticed that if I

Right click on [u]any file type[/u] (e.g. MP3, DLL), Open with -> Choose Program.. Opens Notepad automatically :crazy:

Does not allow me to choose a program as it used to before, I am using SP3 since two weeks now, but only today, this weird selection started happening. Is it that i am hacked??? :sick:

I did use nlite to generate an .iso for backup purposes, never used this .iso file. In this nlite I opted

Tweaks Section -> General Tab -> Explorer -> Associate additional file types with notepad (explanation - Open LST, CFG and NFO files by default).

I do not think it has any significance, but wanted to mention anything i did related to notepad association. ;)

So any help in this regard is greatly appreciated by me and my kids and my grand kids.... :D
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