Here's our Tip for.. August 29, 1997
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Fixing Lost File Associations
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In past tips, we've shown you a couple of great association tricks, like Multiple Associations Made Easy and How to override an association, but have you ever wanted to get rid of one? Perhaps you've accidentally associated a particular file extension with the wrong application, or an association was left behind by some application that you uninstalled long ago. Don't bother trying to fix it from within Windows Explorer's File types dialog box - there's no way to remove a single extension from a registered file type without deleting the entire entry and starting over. See below.

Instead, use Windows 95's version of the Windows 3.x File Manager, (Start, Run, winfile). Once File Manager opens, pull down the File menu and select the Associate... command. When the Associate dialog box appears, type the extension that you want to get rid of in the Files with Extension text box. When you do, you'll see the errant file association appear in the Associate With text box. To remove the file association, scroll to the top of the list of file types, select (None), and then click OK.

Once this broken association is removed, you can associate the file type with the "right" application by right-clicking on one of the files (in this case, any .GIF) then choose Open With and browse for the right application. Normally, Open With only appears on the right-click menus of items that have no association.

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