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PREVENT INCORRECT FILE ASSOCIATIONS

You may know that the Windows 9x Registry holds, among other things, information about what program to launch in order to open a particular file type. For example, if you double click on a text file (one ending with the extension ".txt") then normally Windows Notepad will open it, and if you double click on a file with the extension ".doc", then either Microsoft Word or Windows Wordpad will usually open it, depending on whether or not you have MS Word on your system... In order to stay compatible with earlier versions of Windows, there are also some file type associations in the file WIN.INI, in the [Extensions] section. Occasionally, you will find that a program has usurped the place of the other program specified in the Registry for a particular file type, and the reason is that the usurper's file association in WIN.INI overrides the Registry. If you wish to restore the Registry association for that file type, look for a WIN.INI association to eliminate. You can easily get to WIN.INI in this way: click on the Start button, click on the item labelled "Run...", type in SYSEDIT, and click OK. Then select the WIN.INI page in the editor, which is very similar to Windows Notepad.