backup.
If an application has stopped responding (in other words, it
crashed), it won??™t respond to Windows??™ DDE instructions to
open your document, nor will Windows open a second copy
of the program. To find out whether this is happening, rightclick
an empty portion of your task bar, select Task Manager,
and click the Processes tab. If the program you??™re troubleshooting
is there, highlight it and click End Process, and then
try opening your document again.
At this point, you??™re probably thinking, ???so, I have to type all these Registry
keys by hand if I want the least bit of control over my file types???? If so, I
laugh at you.
File Type Doctor, part of Creative Element Power Tools (available at http://
www.creativelement.com/powertools/) and shown in Figure 3-16, lets you
customize your context menus, change file type icons, and choose defaults.
In the File Type Doctor window, file types are organized by their names
(shown in the righthand column) and by their corresponding filename
extensions (shown in the lefthand column); click either column header to
sort the list accordingly. The properties of the currently selected file type are
shown on the right side of the window.
You can also right-click any file in Windows Explorer or on
your desktop and select Edit File Type to customize the file??™s
context menu in File Type Doctor on the fly.
Edit the name of the type??”the text that appears in Windows Explorer??™s
Type column and in the file??™s Properties window??”by typing in the Name
textbox at the top-right of the window.
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