Troubleshoot file associations and open in Windows 7

Because work needs to analyze the source of a message, and so on, because you are accustomed to using Office outook to view message property information, and the current system default mail program is Windows Live Mail, so use the open with to specify that Office Outlook open the message, However, when you specify the mode of open, because of negligence, do not remove the "Always use the selected program to open this file," the check results are conceivable.

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This operation does not allow Office Outlook to correctly open the Change mail file (. eml type), you can now only restore the previous state, based on the experience of using Windows XP in the folder options to set the file key and open way, but under Windows 7 Goxia is confused! Looking for a long time also did not find, because the RC version of the reason in the help system is difficult to search the relevant information, at least through a few keywords can not search for relevant help. But you can be sure that the system will have to set the place, which reminds me of the Control Panel-system Configuration Center, after a hard search finally found the location of the setting.

Open Control Panel, by default the control Panel is sorted by category, so as shown in the following illustration, we need to click "Programs" to find the default program settings, where we can change the way the specified type of file is opened and the default program settings.

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Of course the list of categories may not visually let us know the details of each of the settings, I personally recommend that the view switch to "large icon", so that I can clearly understand the name of each set feature.

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Click "Set Default Program", we can see the default program currently registered in the system in the Program list box to the left of the following figure, select Windows Live Mail, and click the "Select this program's default value" option on the right, and then in the Set Up Program Association, check the extension of the ". eml" type. Click OK to complete the setup.

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Of course, we can also click "Associate a file type or protocol with program" in the default program settings panel to specify the way that a particular file type is opened.

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