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Want to De-select Always Open to Paint Program

by wannalearn Mar 24, 2005 4:22AM PST

I was fiddling around with the Paint Program (trying to size, crop and edit pictures, etc.) And somehow I guess I inadvertently clicked something that said "Always open in Paint." Now everytime I click on a picture or image in my files, the picture is automatically transferred to Paint. Normally, I could click on an image and right click to use it as wallpaper etc. Will appreciate it if someone can tell me how to de-select the always open to Paint feature. Thanks in advance ...

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Re: file association

by Kees Bakker Mar 24, 2005 4:41AM PST

Wannalearn,

Right click should always work (but menu presented depends on where you do it). Left click in Explorer is a shortcut for "open with default program" (in IE it's a shortcut for "opem link"). To change that default program:
- shift-right click on the file
- choose Open with ...
- browse to the program you want to open it with (another one than paint, I assume)
- don't forget to CHECK the box "Always use this program to open files of this type."
- OK

That should do it.

Kees