Windows XP - Thursday, January 3, 2008 5:07 - 0 Comments

Set Explorer to open unknown files with Notepad

Cut and paste the following script into notepadunknown.reg and run it.

REGEDIT4
BLANK LINE GOES HERE
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTUnknownshellOpenCommand] @=”notepad.exe %1″
BLANK LINE GOES HERE

This should work for all versions of Windows. See .REG files for background information on .REG files.

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