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"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 --- 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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"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/ |
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"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. --- 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. |
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"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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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"Open with" does not remember my choice
Nope, still there.
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"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. |
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"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 |
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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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