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Outlook Express problems

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by evenis

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using Windows ME, and Outlook Express.
When opening received attachments, the all open as a Power Point presentation,(unless the are received specificly as ms word or other specific application) instead of as a text message. This has just started happening within the last couple of weeks. This makes it impossible to open and read a text message. I dont understand why this changed nor how to correct it

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by lizzy

If the attachments do indeed have a .TXT file extension it's easy to fix. Open Windows Explorer and go to View, Folder Options and the last of three tabs should be for file associations. Scroll down to .TXT and modify or edit it to open with Notepad or Word or Wordpad. To look for more information do a search for "lost file associations" and see what you can come up with for the possible causes.
Hope this helps.

by dcosgrove

As to how it happened. Most likely, opening one attachment with power point and having the box "always use this program to open" checked cause all future attachment of the same type to open in this way.

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