Re: QUERY: File associations

[Bev Lockhart <bl -at- SEATTLELAB -dot- COM>]

The sick thing is, that check box is selected by default!  Never, ever, do
that.... to change it back is absolute hell!

I accidentally left that selected one time (in Windows 95), and it was the
wrong program to open the file with; it took me FOREVER to tell Windows not
to do that ever again!

(okay, "reconfigure Windows 95 so it would not longer do that"!)

~~~~ Bev Lockhart, Doc Editor

At 04:55 PM 7/27/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I'm currently writing a tutorial for a Windows-based product.  While
>performing some functions, this product writes log files (with the extension
>'.log') to its log directory.  I have to document how to view these log
>files.
>
>the procedure goes something like:
>
>1. From the Tools menu, choose "View Logs".  The Logs folder opens.
>2. Double-click the log file that you want to view.
>        * If the LOG extension is associated with a program,
>          then the log file opens in that program.
>        * If there is no such association, Windows opens the
>          "Open With" dialog box.  In this dialog box, select
>          a suitable text editor (for example, Notepad) ...
>
>One of the SMEs insists that I instruct the users to check "Always use this
>program to open files of this type".  However, this worries me because it
>changes things for the whole operating system (not just for the product).
>IMO, I should tell the users the purpose of this check box and leave them to
>make the final decision.
>
>What do you think?
>
>TIA,
>
>Geoff Lane
>Cornwall, UK
>geoff -at- gjctech -dot- co -dot- uk
>
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