Text Files

[Guest]

After updating our PC's to Windows XP, now when opening a text file from a website - there is no option to save it, it must be displayed first (it is a site that we use on a regular basis for collecting reports) - I want to force it to open in Notepad not a web browser. Our file associations are set to use Notepad and Notepad is used if I try to open a file off any drive - it is only when I try and open the text file from a website using Internet Explorer.

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

when opening a text file from a website - there is no option to save it

Can you right-click on the link and use Save as... ?

Otherwise use View, Source and use Notepad's File, Save as...
command.

only when I try and open the text file from a website using Internet Explorer.

For more information read

< http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...op/networking/moniker/overview/appendix_a.asp >

(Ref. KB815455 via MSKB Boolean search for
associations AND MIME
)


A Google web search with the same search expression finds first:

< http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...tml/veovrsettingfileassociationsmimetypes.asp >


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle