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"animator.hta" has stopped working!
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 22:39:54 -0500, VanguardLH
wrote: Peter Jason wrote: On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:08:10 -0500, VanguardLH wrote: Peter Jason wrote: VanguardLH wrote: Just how are you starting this HTA? All I know is that it had an exe extension, and when I copied it into a folder with GIF files and clicked on it then all the gifs were animated all at once. HTA programs are HTML code to be submitted to and ran by the mshta.exe interpreter. You should be using the htafile handler, not the one for exefile. You'll need to fix your filetype associations. Or just try renaming from animator.exe to animator.hta and then see what happens when you double-click in Windows Explorer in an .hta filetype. I tried to get back the *.exe extension by fixing the "file association" to "Windows Command Processor" and now I can't change this back again, even from the Set Associations window. The HTA alwys opens with the CMD black screen in the centre! How do I reverse this? Why were you trying to "get back the .exe" association when you should've been renaming the .exe file to .hta and then double-click on the .hta file to use the htafile handler for that filetype? Even if there was a problem with the htafile definition in the registry, why were you putzing around with the exefile definition? I'm not sure what you used. By "Set Associations" do you mean you went to Control Panel - Programs - Default Programs (enter "default programs" in the Start menu searchbox) and then clicked on "Associate a file type or protocol with a program"? Or were you in a command shell and ran the assoc.exe program? In the former Control Panel method, you won't even see .exe listed as a filetype so how were you able to change it? Did you mean you used this applet to change the *.hta* association? Since you were told to associate .hta files with the mshta.exe program, why did you instead choose to associate it with cmd.exe (which I'm assuming is what you meant by "Windows Command Processor" instead of command shell aka command prompt)? If you picked the wrong handler for the .hta filetype association then why not use the same procedure you used before to instead associate the mshta.exe program as the .hta handler? I punched the tar baby, thats all. Anyway I did a system restore from a manual one of a week ago and this seems to have fixed everything. I'm not very deep into operating systems. |
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