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It does sound like an "update." Are aware that you can disable this "feature" in System Services?
The only really sure way of being able to back out of anything - as though it had never happened - is with drive imaging or partition image files.
--AnnaSummers
----- Original Message -----
From: Loy Pressley
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Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 3:37 PM
Subject: "Open With" right-click Menu, WinXP
Once again I needs your invaluable assistance. Something has changed in
my computer and now I cannot add programs to the "Open With" right-click
menu in WinXP Pro. It was fine up until a couple of weeks or so ago.
Now, I cannot select a program that is not in the right-click "Open
With" menu to open a file where it previously would do so.
It seems that now no program that is not in the "C:\program files"
folder can be selected using the "Open With" dialog in the right-click
menu. It seems to be true for all programs, but specifically, for
example. I want to open and HTML file with Arachnopholia 4.0.
Arachnopholia is in a folder on by D: drive called
D:\Appl\Arachnopholia. When I select an HTML file and right-click to get
the "Open With" dialog, Arachnopholia does not appear in the selections
so I select "browse" and go the Arachnopholia folder and select
arach.exe. The program asks me if I want to always use this program to
open these kinds of files. I select "yes" and hit "enter." The file DOES
NOT open and neither does Arachnopholia. Instead, the HTML file opens in
Firefox; the default program, This happens with all files that are not
in the "C:\program files" folder.
My system runs at about 3 GHZ, I have 1 GHZ of RAM, and about a 100
gigs of free disc space. I am running WinXP Pro XP3. All was fine
until a couple of weeks ago. Makes me think one of Mr. Gates updates
that he so often does without my permission, has messed up my system.
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