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  #1  
Old October 15th 18, 05:53 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Matitico
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Default "Open with" does not remember my choice

Hello everybody, My desktop runs Windows 10 Pro, build 1803. I schedule
regularly an application that creates log files; I chose to name them
xxx.log.

The default application to read log files is Bloc-Notes (I have a french
Windows, the english version may name Bloc-notes differently). If I am
not mistaken, the underlying programme is notepad.exe (but this is
irrelevant to my problem). Bloc-notes seems to have problems
understanding carriage-return/new-line and the log file is shown on the
screen as a very long string of characters. WordPad.exe on the other
hand shows the file contents as a line per log entry.

Both right-click-"open with" or right-click-properties give you the
choice of opening the file with Bloc-notes or WordPad; WordPad is my
preferred "open with" application. However there is no way of
associating WordPad with .log files. Even though I choose WordPad as the
preferred application, Bloc-notes comes back the next time I open the file.

Even the list of file extensions and associated applications in the
Windows-Parameters menu matches .log files to Bloc-notes and refuses to
accept WordPad as the preferred application.

Any help to have it my way instead of Mr. Gates' will be appreciated!

All the best, Matitico

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L'absence de virus dans ce courrier électronique a été vérifiée par le logiciel antivirus Avast.
https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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  #2  
Old October 15th 18, 06:12 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Chris
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Default "Open with" does not remember my choice

Matitico wrote:
Hello everybody, My desktop runs Windows 10 Pro, build 1803. I schedule
regularly an application that creates log files; I chose to name them
xxx.log.

The default application to read log files is Bloc-Notes (I have a french
Windows, the english version may name Bloc-notes differently). If I am
not mistaken, the underlying programme is notepad.exe (but this is
irrelevant to my problem). Bloc-notes seems to have problems
understanding carriage-return/new-line and the log file is shown on the
screen as a very long string of characters. WordPad.exe on the other
hand shows the file contents as a line per log entry.

Both right-click-"open with" or right-click-properties give you the
choice of opening the file with Bloc-notes or WordPad; WordPad is my
preferred "open with" application. However there is no way of
associating WordPad with .log files. Even though I choose WordPad as the
preferred application, Bloc-notes comes back the next time I open the file.

Even the list of file extensions and associated applications in the
Windows-Parameters menu matches .log files to Bloc-notes and refuses to
accept WordPad as the preferred application.

Any help to have it my way instead of Mr. Gates' will be appreciated!

All the best, Matitico


I recommend you get notepad++ instead and associate that with your log
files. The default notepad.exe (called Notepad in english) is useless.

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
  #3  
Old October 15th 18, 06:17 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Default "Open with" does not remember my choice

Matitico wrote:

Hello everybody, My desktop runs Windows 10 Pro, build 1803. I schedule
regularly an application that creates log files; I chose to name them
xxx.log.

The default application to read log files is Bloc-Notes (I have a french
Windows, the english version may name Bloc-notes differently). If I am
not mistaken, the underlying programme is notepad.exe (but this is
irrelevant to my problem). Bloc-notes seems to have problems
understanding carriage-return/new-line and the log file is shown on the
screen as a very long string of characters. WordPad.exe on the other
hand shows the file contents as a line per log entry.

Both right-click-"open with" or right-click-properties give you the
choice of opening the file with Bloc-notes or WordPad; WordPad is my
preferred "open with" application. However there is no way of
associating WordPad with .log files. Even though I choose WordPad as the
preferred application, Bloc-notes comes back the next time I open the file.

Even the list of file extensions and associated applications in the
Windows-Parameters menu matches .log files to Bloc-notes and refuses to
accept WordPad as the preferred application.


You are saying there is no "Remember" checkbox in the dialog to pick
which program to open a .log file? Don't pick a recently used entry in
the cascaded content menu. Opt to choose another app/program to open
the file. Choose to browse to the app. The recent list is shown, a
browse dialog to let you navigate to a different executable file, along
with an option to remember your choice. See:

http://home.bt.com/images/W10-defaul...00246586002601

I don't know Bloc-notes. There are some programs that are rude and will
steal back the filetype associations. Creative Labs did this a long
time ago and it ****ed off their customers, so they stopped. I've run
into other programs that when loaded will re-associate themself as the
filetype handler. WITHOUT using Bloc-notes, right-click on a .log file,
pick Notepad or Wordpad, opt to remember your choice. Close Notepad or
Wordpad and double-click on a .log file again. Did it open in Notepad
or Wordpad (which you used previously and opted to remember your
choice)? If so, Windows is remembering your choice. Load Bloc-notes,
use its file browser to open a .log file, and exit Bloc-notes.
Double-click the .log file. See in which app the file opens. If it
opens in Bloc-notes instead of the previously remembered choice of
Notepad or Wordpad then Bloc-notes is being rude in stealing back the
filetype association to itself.

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Not a valid signature delimiter line, and Avast knows this. Some NNTP
clients can be configured to hide signatures (since they are nearly
always off-topic or fluff), and Avast wants everyone to see their spam.
Your posts become spam.

L'absence de virus dans ce courrier électronique a été vérifiée par le logiciel antivirus Avast.
https://www.avast.com/antivirus


Configure Avast to NOT append its fake signature onto your posts to
prevent them from spamifying your posts. Or just uninstall their Mail
Shield module which is superfluous and only exists to bloat their
feature set. Nothing in their Mail Shield won't already be detected by
their on-demand (real-time) scanner since that is what the Mail Shield
uses, anyway.
  #4  
Old October 15th 18, 11:14 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Matitico
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Default "Open with" does not remember my choice

Le 15/10/2018 Ã* 19:17, VanguardLH a écritÂ*:
Matitico wrote:

Hello everybody, My desktop runs Windows 10 Pro, build 1803. I schedule
regularly an application that creates log files; I chose to name them
xxx.log.

The default application to read log files is Bloc-Notes (I have a french
Windows, the english version may name Bloc-notes differently). If I am
not mistaken, the underlying programme is notepad.exe (but this is
irrelevant to my problem). Bloc-notes seems to have problems
understanding carriage-return/new-line and the log file is shown on the
screen as a very long string of characters. WordPad.exe on the other
hand shows the file contents as a line per log entry.

Both right-click-"open with" or right-click-properties give you the
choice of opening the file with Bloc-notes or WordPad; WordPad is my
preferred "open with" application. However there is no way of
associating WordPad with .log files. Even though I choose WordPad as the
preferred application, Bloc-notes comes back the next time I open the file.

Even the list of file extensions and associated applications in the
Windows-Parameters menu matches .log files to Bloc-notes and refuses to
accept WordPad as the preferred application.


You are saying there is no "Remember" checkbox in the dialog to pick
which program to open a .log file? Don't pick a recently used entry in
the cascaded content menu. Opt to choose another app/program to open
the file. Choose to browse to the app. The recent list is shown, a
browse dialog to let you navigate to a different executable file, along
with an option to remember your choice. See:

http://home.bt.com/images/W10-defaul...00246586002601

I don't know Bloc-notes. There are some programs that are rude and will
steal back the filetype associations. Creative Labs did this a long
time ago and it ****ed off their customers, so they stopped. I've run
into other programs that when loaded will re-associate themself as the
filetype handler. WITHOUT using Bloc-notes, right-click on a .log file,
pick Notepad or Wordpad, opt to remember your choice. Close Notepad or
Wordpad and double-click on a .log file again. Did it open in Notepad
or Wordpad (which you used previously and opted to remember your
choice)? If so, Windows is remembering your choice. Load Bloc-notes,
use its file browser to open a .log file, and exit Bloc-notes.
Double-click the .log file. See in which app the file opens. If it
opens in Bloc-notes instead of the previously remembered choice of
Notepad or Wordpad then Bloc-notes is being rude in stealing back the
filetype association to itself.

Thanks for suggesting notepad++. I installed it from the Microsoft Store
and I managed to declared it the default to open .log files. By the way,
notepad.exe hides under the Bloc-notes name.

Sorry for the Avast addendum. I had forgotten to switch off the analysis
of outgoing mail.

All the best, Matitico

---
L'absence de virus dans ce courrier électronique a été vérifiée par le logiciel antivirus Avast.
https://www.avast.com/antivirus

  #5  
Old October 15th 18, 11:19 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Matitico
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Posts: 6
Default "Open with" does not remember my choice

Le 15/10/2018 Ã* 19:12, Chris a écritÂ*:
Matitico wrote:
Hello everybody, My desktop runs Windows 10 Pro, build 1803. I schedule
regularly an application that creates log files; I chose to name them
xxx.log.

The default application to read log files is Bloc-Notes (I have a french
Windows, the english version may name Bloc-notes differently). If I am
not mistaken, the underlying programme is notepad.exe (but this is
irrelevant to my problem). Bloc-notes seems to have problems
understanding carriage-return/new-line and the log file is shown on the
screen as a very long string of characters. WordPad.exe on the other
hand shows the file contents as a line per log entry.

Both right-click-"open with" or right-click-properties give you the
choice of opening the file with Bloc-notes or WordPad; WordPad is my
preferred "open with" application. However there is no way of
associating WordPad with .log files. Even though I choose WordPad as the
preferred application, Bloc-notes comes back the next time I open the file.

Even the list of file extensions and associated applications in the
Windows-Parameters menu matches .log files to Bloc-notes and refuses to
accept WordPad as the preferred application.

Any help to have it my way instead of Mr. Gates' will be appreciated!

All the best, Matitico


I recommend you get notepad++ instead and associate that with your log
files. The default notepad.exe (called Notepad in english) is useless.

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

Thanks Chris for the suggestion. I installed notepad++ from the
Microsoft store and everything works as it should.

All the best, Matitico

---
L'absence de virus dans ce courrier électronique a été vérifiée par le logiciel antivirus Avast.
https://www.avast.com/antivirus

  #6  
Old October 15th 18, 11:24 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Matitico
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Posts: 6
Default "Open with" does not remember my choice

Le 15/10/2018 Ã* 19:17, VanguardLH a écritÂ*:
Matitico wrote:

Hello everybody, My desktop runs Windows 10 Pro, build 1803. I schedule
regularly an application that creates log files; I chose to name them
xxx.log.

The default application to read log files is Bloc-Notes (I have a french
Windows, the english version may name Bloc-notes differently). If I am
not mistaken, the underlying programme is notepad.exe (but this is
irrelevant to my problem). Bloc-notes seems to have problems
understanding carriage-return/new-line and the log file is shown on the
screen as a very long string of characters. WordPad.exe on the other
hand shows the file contents as a line per log entry.

Both right-click-"open with" or right-click-properties give you the
choice of opening the file with Bloc-notes or WordPad; WordPad is my
preferred "open with" application. However there is no way of
associating WordPad with .log files. Even though I choose WordPad as the
preferred application, Bloc-notes comes back the next time I open the file.

Even the list of file extensions and associated applications in the
Windows-Parameters menu matches .log files to Bloc-notes and refuses to
accept WordPad as the preferred application.


You are saying there is no "Remember" checkbox in the dialog to pick
which program to open a .log file? Don't pick a recently used entry in
the cascaded content menu. Opt to choose another app/program to open
the file. Choose to browse to the app. The recent list is shown, a
browse dialog to let you navigate to a different executable file, along
with an option to remember your choice. See:

http://home.bt.com/images/W10-defaul...00246586002601

I don't know Bloc-notes. There are some programs that are rude and will
steal back the filetype associations. Creative Labs did this a long
time ago and it ****ed off their customers, so they stopped. I've run
into other programs that when loaded will re-associate themself as the
filetype handler. WITHOUT using Bloc-notes, right-click on a .log file,
pick Notepad or Wordpad, opt to remember your choice. Close Notepad or
Wordpad and double-click on a .log file again. Did it open in Notepad
or Wordpad (which you used previously and opted to remember your
choice)? If so, Windows is remembering your choice. Load Bloc-notes,
use its file browser to open a .log file, and exit Bloc-notes.
Double-click the .log file. See in which app the file opens. If it
opens in Bloc-notes instead of the previously remembered choice of
Notepad or Wordpad then Bloc-notes is being rude in stealing back the
filetype association to itself.


Thanks VanguardLH for your answer. I followed Chris suggestion and
downloaded notepad++.

Sorry for Avast's intrusion; I had forgotten to switch off the analysis
of outgoing mail.

Cheers, Matitico

---
L'absence de virus dans ce courrier électronique a été vérifiée par le logiciel antivirus Avast.
https://www.avast.com/antivirus

  #7  
Old October 15th 18, 11:29 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Matitico
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Posts: 6
Default "Open with" does not remember my choice

Le 16/10/2018 Ã* 00:24, Matitico a écritÂ*:
Le 15/10/2018 Ã* 19:17, VanguardLH a écritÂ*:
Matitico wrote:


Thanks VanguardLH for your answer. I followed Chris suggestion and
downloaded notepad++.

Sorry for Avast's intrusion; I had forgotten to switch off the analysis
of outgoing mail.

Cheers, Matitico

---
L'absence de virus dans ce courrier électronique a été vérifiée par le
logiciel antivirus Avast.
https://www.avast.com/antivirus


Sorry again! I thought I had succeeded with Avast... I hope now it works


---
L'absence de virus dans ce courrier électronique a été vérifiée par le logiciel antivirus Avast.
https://www.avast.com/antivirus

  #8  
Old October 16th 18, 03:51 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
No_Name
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Default "Open with" does not remember my choice

Nope, still there.
  #9  
Old October 16th 18, 03:56 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Posts: 10,881
Default "Open with" does not remember my choice

shemp14 wrote:

Nope, still there.


Might have to stop and restart the Mail Shield component in Avast; i.e.,
disable and renable that shield. I got rid of Avast's Mail Shield a
long time ago. When I investigated, I found it is superfluous: add no
more protection than the on-demand scanner which it uses, anyway. It
can cause timeouts between client and server, too, which generates
errors. Uninstalling the Mail Shield component from Avast would
definitely get rid of their spammy appendage to your e-mails and
newsgroups.

Could be Matitico only disabled the spammy fake signature on e-mails.
There could be a separate setting for messages sent to newsgroups.
E-mail and newsgroups are not the same thing.
  #10  
Old October 16th 18, 11:47 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Matitico
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Default "Open with" does not remember my choice

Le 16/10/2018 Ã* 04:56, VanguardLH a écritÂ*:
shemp14 wrote:

Nope, still there.


Might have to stop and restart the Mail Shield component in Avast; i.e.,
disable and renable that shield. I got rid of Avast's Mail Shield a
long time ago. When I investigated, I found it is superfluous: add no
more protection than the on-demand scanner which it uses, anyway. It
can cause timeouts between client and server, too, which generates
errors. Uninstalling the Mail Shield component from Avast would
definitely get rid of their spammy appendage to your e-mails and
newsgroups.

Could be Matitico only disabled the spammy fake signature on e-mails.
There could be a separate setting for messages sent to newsgroups.
E-mail and newsgroups are not the same thing.

Hi, I am answering having removed altogether the "mail agent"
(previously I had ticked off the analysis of outgoing messages, both
mail and news groups - and it did not suffice!). I hope this time the
Avast advertisement will have disappeared! (and I apologize if it is
still there...)

Cheers, Matitico
  #11  
Old October 16th 18, 12:08 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
mechanic
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On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 12:47:28 +0200, Matitico wrote:

Le 16/10/2018 à 04:56, VanguardLH a écrit*:
[17 quoted lines suppressed]

Hi, I am answering having removed altogether the "mail agent"
(previously I had ticked off the analysis of outgoing messages, both
mail and news groups - and it did not suffice!). I hope this time the
Avast advertisement will have disappeared! (and I apologize if it is
still there...)

Cheers, Matitico


Seems to have done the trick!
 




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