RE: Default Double-click action

I found that by going directly into My Documents from the Start Menu instead
of through a word processor everything works fine. With a word processor I
was getting a document filled with code whenever I double-clicked an image
file. I hope somebody will benefit from this, otherwise I wasted your time.
Thanks for your time John.
--
Gary


"GBouwer" wrote:

> Hi
>
> I recently got a new machine running XP Home Edition SP2.
>
> When double-clicking on a .JPG file, instead of Previewing the file in
> Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, the file is opened in MSPaint. When I
> right-click on the file, the default double-click action (in bold case) is
> EDIT instead of PREVIEW.
>
> WHat can I do? Or is this another SP2 bug?
>
> G Bouwer

Gary wrote:
> I found that by going directly into My Documents from the Start Menu
> instead of through a word processor everything works fine. With a
> word processor I was getting a document filled with code whenever I
> double-clicked an image file. I hope somebody will benefit from
> this, otherwise I wasted your time. Thanks for your time John.
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Glad you solved the issue...

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John Inzer
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Gary wrote:
> I found that by going directly into My Documents from the Start Menu instead
> of through a word processor everything works fine. With a word processor I
> was getting a document filled with code whenever I double-clicked an image
> file. I hope somebody will benefit from this, otherwise I wasted your time.
> Thanks for your time John.

If you mean that when you double-clicked a photo in a Word file open
dialog, then the behavior you experience is correct.

A Word dialog should open files as if they were some kind of text file.

Double-clicking on a general file explorer menu should cause the file
to be opened by its "associated" program.

-michael

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