On 09/10/2002 12:00 Harry Krause stood on a soap-box and preached to the
unwashed masses:
> Parish wrote:
>>
>> Hmm, does double-clicking a .DOC file in Explorer still fire up Word?
>> Sounds daft I know but, as I said, Moz picks this stuff up from Windows,
>> which explains why I don't have it in Helper Apps.
>
> No, it doesn't. I checked the setup windows in explorer and file types
> still shows the proper selections for opening a doc file. Very
> strange...any ideas?
>
At a guess? Corruption in the registry? Try searching in the
microsoft.public.* NGs on Google Groups.
>
>>
>> OK, I found an old e-mail with a Word doc attached. When I
>> double-clicked it the Downloading... dialogue popped up with "Open with
>> Word" as the default option. Clicking the Advanced button opened a *New*
>> Type dialogue. The MIME type BTW is application/msword, not x-msword,
>> which is maybe why it didn't work when you added it (the MIME type not
>> matching what the server served it as). Oh, I just thought, do you have
>> this problem with *all* Word docs or just from one sender? Check the
>> MIME-type in the header.
>
>
> All word docs in mozilla, not dependent upon sender
>
Well, if they don't open by double clicking in Explorer then it's not
surprising that Moz can't do it. Find the cause and fix the former and
the latter should start working again I'd bet.
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