Micro$oft don't make it very simple. Under most versions of Window$ that I
have used you can find <folder options> under edit or tools IIRC. You will
of course need a Windows Explorer session open to reach this menu entry to
begin with. Now, on the righmost tab you'll see all the association
options. Find the one which was created when you ticked the "open all files
of this type with this...". Purge it, press OK and you should be fine. Just
be careful not to erase file assciations that affect more than a single
file extension.
John Morrison wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have a problem with a group of files - for the sake of argument, let
> me call them ".xyz" files.
>
> They are associated with an application which installed quite OK under
> NT3.1, 3.5 and 3.51 (so many years ago that I don't wish to admit my age),
> but under NT5 (aka Windows 2000) there is a problem.
>
> Like a pillock, I tried reading one of these files using WordPad, but
> fell into the trap of failing to cancel the (default!) tick-box which
> says, roughly, "open all files of this type with this". (This is,
> naturally, not a mistake to make twice.) Now, all my ".xyz" files are
> "marked" to open with WordPad. Trying to cancel this fails, using every
> technique of which I can think ...
>
> Is there anyone out there in the W2k UK community who can tell me how
> to
> revert these files to, as it were, "no specified opener"? I have been many
> years in the computer industry, and I am at the end of my resources, alas!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> John Morrison
> johnDOTmorrisonATtescoDOTnet
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