DallasBill wrote:For jpg, gif, etc. regardless of doing the Folder options thing, the re-association will not change the default. The default program will still be FB and you can see this simply by doing a re-associate and then doing the 'default' button again... it will go back to FB.
I don't want Firebird to be the default browser, though. So, if I can change the associations, and change the default browser back to Netscape, I should be all right. No?
DallasBill wrote:This is an ultimate fix in XP:
Go to Explorer's Folder Options->File Types dialog box and scroll down the extensions list. Wherever you see an extention with the FB icon delete it. Yes... delete it. This will cause those extensions in future to open with the program defaulted by the XP file system... picture and fax viewer for gif, for example. It was the only way I could get all those obscure extensions to re-associate back, and keep the file system default, and it works.
Any reason this shouldn't work in 98SE as well?
If it did, the only problem left would be how to make Netscape the default browser again.
DallasBill wrote:I personally would not recommend making FB the default using its Options button on a Windows system because of the way IE is integrated in the file system.
Believe me, I wish I'd never clicked on that button. In the inertia of setting Firebird up, I forgot that I needed to test it first, to see if it ran faster than my Netscape browser, before making it the deafault.
DallasBill wrote: On XP, I personally would re-associate HTML, jpg, etc. on a one-to-one basis only and this requires work and knowledge of extensions... and it would be nice if an extension did this with a check list... and only this.
I know nothing about extensions, I'm afraid. I also don't know how to re-assicate the file types, since I have no record of the path of the applications using them originally. Nor do I know how to access their previous icons.
But didn't you say that re-associating won't work in any case?
Frankly, I'm getting that weird feeling of confusion and helplessness, know what I mean?
But, your idea of deleting the file types sounds like a good one. Think it'll work? (Any ideas how to reset Netscape as the default browser?)