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482, RE: File associations
Posted by yomama1953, Fri Dec-14-01 01:39 AM
Thanks everyone. I knew I could count on my friends in the forum!

If anybody else has a painfully slow dial up connection, just the first tweaks in the system.ini file DOUBLED my speed! First speed tweaks I ever found that actually worked and worked well.

On a lighter note:
Sweetpea, I literally live across the street from my home state of Arkansas, on the Oklahoma side of the street. These Sooner fans are kinda agitated at hearing me call the Hogs! I love it!!



"PAIN IS INEVITABLE, SUFFERING IS OPTIONAL."



>I found some wonderful speed tweaks that actually worked and
>I didn't even have to go into the registry (Tweak3D.net). I
>have hit a snag, however.
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>There are some settings for a file called 'MSDOS.SYS' and
>when I double click to open it, the menu says "Open with".
>This spells disaster for me as I totally ruined my programs
>using the wrong association one time. I have been reading
>for hours and I still cannot figure out how to determine
>which you choose to open a particular file. Most of the
>tutorials tell you to choose the most logical one--whose
>logic are they talking about? I will never understand this
>stuff! Why can't they have the computer pick out the
>association like it does with a lot of the files--you just
>double click and it opens?!
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>Can anyone help me with this file association stuff so I
>don't have to do a reinstall every time I open one of these
>files? Thanx!
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