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Nice!<br />
Deleted..<br />
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software<wbr />\Microsoft<wbr />\Windows\C<wbr />urrentVers<wbr />ion\Explor<wbr />er\FileExt<wbr />s\.txt -&gt;UserChoice
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The checkbox &quot;Always use the selected program to open this kind of file&quot; is grayed out.<br />
It does not help to open Windows Explorer &quot;as administrator&quot;.<br />
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Clicking on *.txt file will now open in &quot;cmd&quot;!<br />
Need to restore this..<br />
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The checkbox "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" is grayed out.

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The checkbox "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" is grayed out.
It does not help to open Windows Explorer "as administrator".

Clicking on *.txt file will now open in "cmd"!
Need to restore this..



Cannot change default program for *.txt anymore

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