Windows 2000 File Associations

[spike]

When you double click a file that has no application associated with it, Windows 200 will poop up a window asking you waht you would like to open it with. By default it also places a check mark in the "Always use this program to open these files." check box.

Does anybody no how to turn this off? Just to clarify I would like to have the checkbox empty when I double click a file and this window pops up.

Thanks
Scott

 

[Snickle]

That was a common complaint with Win2000 and it was explained at a Microsoft WinXP seminar I attended that it was one of the changes made in WinXP. No offering was made as to how to change it in Win2000.

 

[Daveyboy2]

Well, you could also CHANGE the file association too, so that when it 'poops up' (see your original post) it brings up a differnet program.

(Windows Explorer, tools, folder options, file types)

 

[spike]

Hmmm, seems it was a bad spelling day. When I re-read the message, to find the poop, I also noticed I used Windows 200, which apparently came out in the stone age!

The reason I would like to change the default, is I am using notepad to open numerous files from an email archiving program. Each file has a different extension that is numbered. I was hoping for a registry fix to change the default.

 

[bcastner]

From a CMD session:

rename *.* *.*.txt