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Notepad missing in "open with" window

Feb 19, 2004 11:11PM PST

Windows XP Home, When cwshredder rendered the notepad shortcut in accessories unusable I was able to just replace it with a copy from the DLLCACHE file and it works fine. However I no longer have notepad listed in the OPEN WITH window, anyone know of a way to get it back in there.

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Re:Notepad missing in
Feb 19, 2004 11:49PM PST

This happened to me . My solution was to place a copy of notepad.exe in my C:\windows\system32 folder. I also made it read only to try and prevent it from being deleted again. It seems to have worked.

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Re:Re:Notepad missing in
Feb 20, 2004 12:03AM PST

That worked, Thanks for the tip, very much appreciated.

Frank