Re: Temp Files
Lee wrote:
| On Aug 26, 6:32 pm, "PCR" <pcr...@netzero.net> wrote:
|> DaffyD® wrote:
|>
|> | I found the file. The string value is temp_auto_file. Does this get
|> | deleted as well?
|>
|> I think you meant "TMP_auto_file". That's what what I had...
|>
|> HKEY_Classes_Root\.tmp
|> @="TMP_auto_file"
|>
|> The string is also found in...
|>
|> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TMP_auto_file]
|> @="TMP File"
|>
|> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TMP_auto_file\shell]
|>
|> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TMP_auto_file\shell\open]
|> @=""
|>
|> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TMP_auto_file\shell\open\command]
|> @="c:\\windows\\NOTEPAD.EXE \"%1\""
|>
|> Mine, you see, opened in Notepad. I probably set that myself-- but I
|> NEVER would SAVE any .tmp file that didn't look to be pure text after
|> opening it!
|>
|> ANYHOW, to get rid of it, use the Folder Options remove button-- that
|> way gets it all! (But I wouldn't willy-nilly remove just anything
|> from there.)
|>
|> | "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message
|> |news:OamUEYCBJHA.1980@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
|> |> No. They should have NO association. In regedit, find
|> |> HKEY_Classes_Root\.tmp (not the leading period)and delete it.
|> |>
|> |> --
|> |> Gary S. Terhune
|> |> MS-MVP Shell/User
|> |>
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|> |>|> "DaffyD®" <daf...@woohoo.com> wrote in message
|>
|> |>news:%23lzssJBBJHA.4368@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
|> |> > Just curious. Are TMP files opened by wordpad.exe by default?
|> |> > --
|> |> > { : [|]=( DaffyD®
|> |> >
|> |> > If I knew where I was I'd be there now.
|>
|> --
|> Thanks or Good Luck,
|> There may be humor in this post, and,
|> Naturally, you will not sue,
|> Should things get worse after this,
|> PCR
|> pcr...@netzero.net
|
| Not necessarily PCR, just because you have it doesn't mean Daffy's
| gots the same disease.
Not necessarily what? Do you think his could have been "TEMP" instead of
"TMP"?
| But you are 100% right when you said that you
| probably set that association yourself - which is my whole point to
| this post.
|
| All such "_auto_" entries in the registry were put there manually by
| the nut behind the steering wheel so to speak. It gets done that way
| when you use the Open With gizmo and check the "use this program
| always" box.
Yea, likely I did that. It messes nothing up in/of itself (I don't
think), but only determines what will open a .tmp file when one clicks
it oneself. Applications other than Notepad/Wordpad STILL will function
fine when they need to access that file type. HOWEVER, one NEVER should
SAVE the opened file-- that COULD mess the file up if it is other than
plain & unformatted text! Wordpad & some Notepad substitutes may put
formatting characters into the saved file!
| It's also the same way in which Windows can be tweaked
| to provid for custom programs that need their associations to fire up
| first.
If you use the Folder Options, File Types, Edit, requestor(s) to change
applications to perform the Actions-- it only will change what happens
when one clicks a file of that file type or extension. Also, it can
change what will happen when one R-Clks that file type & selects one one
of those options, if there are Actions for that. That's what I call a
complex one-- one that has multiple R-Clk possibilities like Print &
Edit.
I don't think the complex ones are a good candidate to use that "Always
use this program to open this type of file" option of "Open with..." on.
However, maybe it won't upset the other actions (I don't really know).
You can get "Open with..." back, you know, by holding shift while
R-Clking a file of a type that already has been set once. The other
thing I worry about is that "Always use..." wouldn't get the switches
right if it is other than "%1", like in...
c:\windows\NOTEPAD.EXE "%1"
| Apparently the underline character is first in line ahead of a
| standard alpha character such that "jpg_auto_file" gets acted upon
| before the standard "jpgfile" does just for an example. Yet the
| original entry remains intact in the registry and a bit good
| housecleaning can get one back to where things once were without too
| much heartache. It's a pretty good system considering, except when
| DaffyD forgets that he is the one that did it to himself - somehow.
..JPG, .JPEG, .JPE, .JFIF seems to be complex in a different way(s)-- it
makes use of DDE, it has multiple file types, & it has TWO registered
file types in Folder Options, File Types tab. They both are named JPEG
Image-- none of the two is named JPG File.
If one did an "Open with..." on one of those file types, one would get,
for instance, a "JPG File" listed in "Registered file types" window.
Probably that would give both keys...
HKEY_Classes_Root\.JPG
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\JPG_auto_file
....& removing "JPG File" would likely get rid of just those keys & leave
the "JPEG Image" keys intact. I'm not overly worried about that!
--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
Should things get worse after this,
PCR
pcrrcp@netzero.net