How do you un-associated a file 1

[Hungster]

i been using notepad to open a file which doesn't have any association to it, now i made it by default using notepad to open it

how do i un-associated the file to notepad, and it is not in the Tools > Folder Options...>File Types Lists

thanks

 

[ashpp]

Have you had a look in REGEDIT under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT is there a . key there?

Ash.

 

[Hungster]

nope, can't find it either

 

[Aslamvs]

hi,

For opening the file you are doing roght click open with then you are choosing NOTEPAD. while you choose notepad in open with dialog box in the botton there is one option called "always use this program to open this type of file" just tick that option .

now whenever you open that file ti will directly open with notepad only.

HTH Aslam

 

[Hungster]

i want to un-do exactly what you said

 

[grandpubah]

Go to Windows Explorer, click on tools, folder options, select the file types tab. Find the association you want to remove and click delete.

Jon

 

[gbiello]

Open up an Explorer window (file system, not Internet)
Go to Tools menu, Options item, File Types tab.
Under "Registered file types", scroll down to the file type in question, and click the "Delete" button.

Alternately, in Regedit, go to: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.???\OpenWithList and change it there.

-gbiello

 

[Hungster]

thanks gbiello for the reg key
the other methods i been thru it,
i stated above it is not in the tools folder options, and people kept telling me going there, duh

 

[g4]

This is a common problem where I support NT, W2K, and XP. Go to a command prompt and type ASSOC without parameters to display the current file associations. If ASSOC is invoked with just a file extension, it displays the current file association for that file extension. Specify nothing for the file type and the command will delete the association for the file extension. Example "assoc .bat=" will disassociate any file with the .bat extension with batfile.