IE opens .txt file in IE instead of notepad.

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sean sobey

Hi everyone,
My IE 6 on Win XP sp2 opens .txt file in IE instead of notepad. If I double
click on a .txt file in my computer it opens it up in Notepad, so the
program settings on the computer are file.

Anyone have a solution for this?
Thanks,
Sean
 
sean sobey said:
Hi everyone,
My IE 6 on Win XP sp2 opens .txt file in IE instead of notepad. If I
double
click on a .txt file in my computer it opens it up in Notepad, so the
program settings on the computer are file.

Anyone have a solution for this?
Thanks,
Sean
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That's normal behavior. Remember that HTML is actually just text with a
bunch of tags in it (it is interpreted code written in text). If you
don't want the link to the .txt file to open the text file within IE,
right-click on the link and saved the .txt file to a local file and then
open it.
 
Hi sean sobey :-)

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Hope this helps :-)

Jan :)
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Sean,

Not sure if there is some other method, but I could accomplish the same by
breaking the Content Type registry setting for .txt files.
 
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