Why does notepad keep opening downloads

Step 5: Hard shutdown the computer, by pressing onto the power button. Now turn the computer back on. If the issue is gone, then problem is fixed. If "04sall-notepad" opens up again on startup, please reply back stating that. You must log in or sign up to reply here. Show Ignored Content. Thema: Everything I download opens under notepad how can I fix this problem? How can I fix camera always open problems? There are many users in my company found this problem. I solved the problem by turning the camera off and back on.

But after a while it came back to be the same Files I download, download with notepad : So i am trying to download a file listed as. I was not sure if the file was supposed be downloaded as is when i first downloaded it so i opened it with notepad and now everytime i How can i fix this?

How can i fix this problem?? How can I fix this? I am on a windows 10 laptop. How can I fix this problem. Had Windows 7 Since upgrade to Windows 10 operating system. I can't view dvd's from my DVD.

Have erased valuable footage during this plight. Your name or email address: Do you already have an account? In fact, it is done fairly often, usually when a new program is installed to take over a task that has been performed by some other program before then.

Probably the best example is purchasing a new photo editing program such as Adobe Photoshop Elements to replace the old stand-by Windows Paint. If it was just one or two file types that were affected, you could change them like this:. At this point you should be seeing something like this:.

Depending on the program, you might have to click twice before you actually find the executable file usually ending in. If I wanted to set I. Internet Explorer gives you three choices when you go to download a file - 'Open', 'Save' and 'Cancel'.

Firefox gives just two - 'Save' or 'Cancel' - and I think it is the same for Chrome. The default 'Save' location for all of them is your downloads folder, although you can change this. You should choose 'Save' when downloading files like this, if you choose 'Open' IE will open the file in whatever it thinks is the appropriate application.

If these files are similar to the config. CFG files I am used to in simulators they are mainly text files so notepad is the obvious choice to open them with. Once you have saved them to your downloads folder or wherever then you can do what you want with them.

Posted 11 July - AM. Chris, I always save my downloads to either desktop or Doc folder but it always saved as a notepad file, the only problem was when I dropped it into the game the mod wouldn't show, but now I've sorted it out the files work as they should, thank you for your help though. Glad you got it sorted out.

Thanks for the update. May I ask which of the two links I posted worked for you? Did you create a dummy file or use FileTypesMan? Posted 12 July - PM. Community Forum Software by IP. Sign In Create Account. Javascript Disabled Detected You currently have javascript disabled.