Opening NWC files thru Windows 7 start button

2011-02-13 08:59 pm

Using Windows 7 Home Premium, when i click on the circle with the four color flag on in in the lower left corner (on the toolbar), I am shown a number of programs including NWC2. When I mouseover it, a list of recently opened files appear on the right. Twice in the last month or so, clicking on a recent file gives me a message about files associations being lost and I can only open the file thru the viewer.

I have fixed this by going into the file manager, picking a NWC file and choosing open with. The viewer was highlighted but NWC2 was an option--I chose it and made sure the default "from now on" box was checked.

A while back I changed the default over to the viewer to check out Rick G's clipboard to NWC script and knew I would have to set it back, but having to do this without any further experiments surprises me.

BTW, if I open NWC on it's own and select a file from within the program it works fine.

Re: Opening NWC files thru Windows 7 start button

Reply #1 – 2011-02-13 09:57 pm

Quote from: Rick G. – 2011-01-02 07:53 am

If you manage to mess things up while experimenting, I recommend uninstalling the Viewer via the Control Panel and reinstalling it.

I can't speak to Windows 7, but this generally fixes file association woes.