Re: nt file types WORSE THAN I THOUGHT

In explorer do the following: Click on View Click on Options Click on File Types Choose sql from Registered file types Click on Edit Choose Open on the Action Click Edit Place cursor on the "Application used to perform action" Click on Browse Then follow up to choose the program with which you wish to edit. High light and Click Open Click OK Click Close Click Close That should work. Nicole Guffey wrote: > > Thank you for the <shift>+right-click to produce a menu > that includes the "open with" option even if the file type is > registered. > That is a workaround. However, I want to be able to simply double > click > on a *.sql file from explorer and have it open outomatically with > notepad, > and not have this registration change simply because I open Informix > > SQLEditor 3.00. Yup, you heard it, all I have to do is merely OPEN > ONE INSTANCE of Informix SQLEditor and it will reregister the *.sql > file type even if I immediately close the tool without performing > any > actions or opening any files. > > Anyway, thank you, Peter, for a workaround! > > Peter Lancashire wrote: > > WF Software wrote: > > > > > > In article <700amh$cg2$1@news.xmission.com>, NGuffey@jdriscoll.com > > (Nicole > > > Guffey) wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Annoying behavior on NT: Anytime I open a *.sql file through Informix > > > > SQLEditor tool, all *.sql files are reregestered to always open with > > the > > > > Informix SQLEditor tool, regardless of what they were previously > > > > registered > > > > to open with. I work in MSSQL, Oracle, Sybase and Informix, so it is > > > > really > > > > annoying to have all *.sql files open with the Informix tool. Can > > this > > > > be > > > > turned off somewhere? > > > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > Nicole Guffey > > > > DBA > > > > J. Driscoll & Associates > > > > nguffey@jdriscoll.com > > > > > > > > > > > I doubt it, as far as NT is concerned a sql file is a sql file, and it > > > will open it with what ever the last entry in the registry was. Now if > > > you were using a proper operating system you can get round that sort on > > > restriction :-)) > > > > > > Paul Watson # I don't suffer from > > > WF Software Ltd. # stress, I'm just > > > Tel. (+44) 1436 674729 # a carrier > > > Fax. (+44) 1436 678693 # > > > www.wfsoftware.co.uk > > > > If it works the way Windoze 95 does, in Explorer, try holding down the > > SHIFT key and right-clicking the file. You will see a slightly different > > menu from the usual right-click, it contains "Open with...". Select that > > and choose what you like from the list, but be sure to clear the little > > box that says "always open files of this type with this application" or > > some such. > > > > If you hold your mouse upside down it might work on alternate Mondays. > > > > -- > > Peter Lancashire > > Information Systems Specialist, Bayer plc > > Eastern Way, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32 7AH, UK > > Tel: +44-1635-562258, Fax: +44-1635-562281 > > --- > > If all else fails, read the instructions and the release notes. > > Join Infuse, the UK Informix User Group at http://www.infuse.org.uk/ > > ---