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IE and File Extensions

Subject:IE and File Extensions
Posted by:"Steve" (ste..@discussions.microsoft.com)
Date:Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:34:03

Sorry if this is the wrong group.

When I click to open a download using IE, it some how knows the application
it's supposed to start to open the file.  Easy question, right?  I thought
so, it's just the file type association but it's not.  I have completely
removed this key from the registry. If I now download the file and save it to
disk and then try to open it can't do it because the file association has
been removed.  However, IE still somehow knows which app to use. I thought
maybe this info was cached but after a reboot it still knows.  After deteling
this key, Firefox has no idea what to open the file with.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Steve

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