You will need to have the program installed on your computer to open the file that you are wanting to open. For ex. If you were sent a word file and you go to open it you would get an error saying the file does not have a program associated with it to open it. You would need to install Word to open the file. What is the file or file ext. you are trying to open?
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Right-click the file, click Open With, and select Word. Does it open then? If so, a reinstall of Word should reset the associations and that may be simpler than trying to set associations anther way. You shouldn't lose any documents doing that.
Go to Explorer/Tools/Folder Options/File Types. You can create the
association there. Press the "New" button, enter the file extension and
navigate to the program executable that you want to open that file. It
should stick.
sorry if i get this wrong, i dont have vista, but have used it - goto Control Panel . click on Classic View.
click on Default Programs
and in here is the Associate a file type with a program.
the text may read slightly differently, but thats the jist of it.
Send yourself another known working PDF attachment and see if the same thing happens. If it does, post back. If not, then it most likely means there's either a naming issue with the problem PDF, or it is just corrupt enough to give you troubles when opening from email.
If clicking a hyperlink in Outlook Express appears to do nothing at all, there are likely one or more registered file associations that are configured incorrectly. To repair the associations:
Open My Computer and click Folder Options on the Tools menu. Click the File Types tab. Select URL:Hypertext Transfer Protocol in the list of registered file types. Click the Advanced button (Windows XP), or the Edit button (other versions). In the list of Actions, select open and then click the Edit button. The Application used to perform action box should contain this, including quotation marks: “C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe” -nohome If instead it contains a short name version of that path, or an incorrect path, change it to the above. Click OK, click OK. Repeat steps 3-7 for the file type URL:Hypertext Transfer Protocol with Privacy. Click OK to close the Folder Options window.
The first thing that you have to find out is what type of file is it. Normally if the file is not associated with any program on the computer then that means that the program is not installed. To find out the type of program that it is you can go to the link below then check the file extention. The file extention by the way is the letters after the period in the filename. EX. hello.DOC the capital letters is the file extention
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