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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.
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