[UK-CONTEST] Opening files with Wintest not

[G3SJJ]

Dave, in general it was text files with various extensions. Looks as 
though WT has a feature that hijacks these things, kind of advertising I 
guess!

Anyway VHB's pointer to the Windows webpage with change instructions did 
the trick, I could see the WT icon there so set it up for Notepad.

Chris G3SJJ


Dave Sergeant wrote:
> On 14 Jan 2008 at 20:25, Mike Harris wrote:
>
>   
>> Or open notepad first, then navigate to the file you want to open
>> after selecting all files.  Notepad is a dumb editor and will open
>> anything.  It might not make much sense but it will display.  File
>> size could be a problem, in that case use wordpad.  In fact I believe
>> notepad will tell you the file is too big and suggest wordpad which is
>> just as dumb but has a bigger appetite.  A 3MB binary looks real odd.
>>
>>     
>
> Chris never told us the extension of the files which opened in 
> WinTest instead of in Notepad. First thing you should ALWAYS do with 
> any Windows PC is to go into Windows Explorer (or if you insist 'My 
> Computer'), go to Tools/FolderOptions/View and uncheck 'Hide 
> extensions for known filetypes', and check 'show hidden files and 
> folders'. Then tell us the extension. Never understand how people 
> work if they can't see what filetype they are dealing with. I expect 
> you have also got it to show everything as meaningless icons instead 
> of the more useful 'details' view.
>
> Notepad, never use it. I use Notepad++ these days, before that 
> Notepad+. And on my PC I have set it up so I just right click and 
> select 'Open with Notepad++'.
>
> Obviously the file extensions for the files Chris had problems with 
> had got changed to open with WinTest. You can in any case right 
> click, choose OpenWith and select a program or 'choose program' where 
> you can opt to 'always open with this program'.
>
> Easy...
>
> 73 Dave G3YMC
>
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