Screen savers are actually executables so they need to be associated to
*themselves*.

On my system I have
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.scr]
@="scrfile"

It may be that [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\scrfile] is still OK on yours and if you
just change the above it will be fine. [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\scrfile\shell] has
three subkeys, open, install and config. The crucial entry is
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\scrfile\shell\open\command]
@="\"%1\" /S"
(which displays as ""%1" /S" in the registry editor).

Joe
> -----Original Message-----
> I used to start screen saver directly by double clicking a shortcut on
> desktop which points to "Blank Screen.scr" in Windows\SYSTEM
> Directory.
>
> After installing Autocad on my W98 computer, i am not able to
> run screen
> saver directly, and when i double click its icon on desktop
> then screen
> saver file is opened in Note Pad.
>
> Although screensaver starts automatically when there is no activity on
> PC.
>
> So i thought that Autocad has changed the associtaion of *.scr file to
> Note pad.
>
> Now i know how to change association of files, but i do not know the
> application to which i should reassociate *.scr files, so that my
> shortcut on desktop works as it used to be.
>
> Please help me in this matter....
>
> -ajeet.

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