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Word Pad Open all files?
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Accessdabbler
Technical User
I'll look into it for you. One thing you can do: When you do a File > Open, type *.* and hit enter (it's faster than using the mouse to drop down the File Type box).
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Put a shortcut for Wordpad into your SendTo folder.
Then you can still choose which program you use w/o fiddling with the OpenWith dialogue.
Regards Jim
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Put a shortcut for Wordpad into your SendTo folder.
Then you can still choose which program you use w/o fiddling with the OpenWith dialogue.
Regards Jim
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Accessdabbler
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OK, I got it.
Now, I'm using Win2K so it may be slightly different for Win9x:
Open the registry (Start > Run > regedit)
Do a search for WordPad
When you find a folder called "WordPad", open it and look for an "Options" folder.
Open it and locate the key DefaultFormat.
Double-click it and change the value. On my system, changing it to 9 made "All Files" the default file name to open.
Now, I'm using Win2K so it may be slightly different for Win9x:
Open the registry (Start > Run > regedit)
Do a search for WordPad
When you find a folder called "WordPad", open it and look for an "Options" folder.
Open it and locate the key DefaultFormat.
Double-click it and change the value. On my system, changing it to 9 made "All Files" the default file name to open.
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