Windows 10: File associations don't work

OK, so file association for .htm files is set to my text editor.

For some reason, though, the text editor won't open when I double-click a .htm file.

I get the blue spinning timer thing for a few seconds, then nothing happens.

Apart from "uninstall this crock of an OS", are there any solutions?

Additional questions - this didn't happen in Win7. What would motivate Miscrosoft programmers to change it so that it doesn't work? Why change that bit of the code? How difficult is it to associate a program with a filetype and open that program awhen the filetype is double-clicked? This is not some out-dated hardware nor a 3rd party app - it's a problem with Microsoft programmers' incompetence

Apologies to anyone here who DOESN'T work for Microsoft, but I'm through being polite about this. The people who programmed this thing are incompetent. This is not a product in a releasable form

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Windows 10: Run c:\ = Application not found

You know how you can associate a file type to open with a certain program? Like maybe you want all .JPG pictures to open with PhotoShop instead of Paintbrush?

The same type of associations are set for folders, directories, and
drives. Those don't have "file extensions" like the 3-letter jpg files do, but the associations work the same way. And it sounds like one of those on your machine is associated wrongly.

Easy fix: go to
this page, scroll down or search to find those 3 items in the list on the page, and click them to download the correct association settings for each. This page talks about Windows 7, but these will work on newer versions too.

 

File associations to programs messed up

I had my file associations going to a program I use very frequently. I tried a new version of the program and it changed the file associations to the new version. I decided that I don't want the file associations to go to the new version - I want them
to go to the old version. I know how to associate programs to file types - at least the way it used to work. When I try to change the file association now, it won't let me set it. It only gives me the option of setting it to programs that have nothing to
do with this file type. I know the path and file name of the program I want to use, but Windows no longer will let me set it to the correct program.

I'm really screwed if I can't reset the file associations to the correct (old) program. Is there a way to do this?

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Use this tutorial
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/8...dows-10-a.html

Go to Option Two.
Scroll down the File type or Protocol table till you see htm link > click it
Then follow step #1 to 7.

For good measure, repeat the same on html link.

 

Thanks.

I now have a related problem. I'm editing the .htm file, occasionally saving, and viewing it in a browser as I update it.

Suddenly, it won't allow me to save it any more - says I need to check that I have the correct permission, or that it's not open in another application.

But I've just been saving it, several times, and had it open in the browser the whole time!

Incidentally, closing the browser, and closing and opening the .htm file in the editor doesn't help.

????? Seriously?

It's like the MS programmers are deliberately ****ing with us.

 

And now it's working. For now. These problems, the other one is windows suddenly telling me it's missing some protocol file, then I reboot and it's apparently back (where did it go? Why is it back now?) come and go, over and over.

Thanks for the previous answer, but I really don't want to reset all the defaults, then go through and change them again, specially when this problem will likely recur anyway.

This is not a releasable product, which is probably why it was free.

I read recently they're thinking of forcing it on us in a year or 2

 

.....................Thanks for the previous answer, but I really don't want to reset all the defaults................

I did not ask you to reset all the defaults.
Just the htm and html.

....................This is not a releasable product, which is probably why it was free.

What do you mean " not a releasable product"?
You are on Insider Preview build ?
If you are running Windows 10 RTM, it IS a released product.

 

Fair enough. Sorry. I'll try changing them to something else, then changing them back.

What I mean is, it shouldn't have been released until these problems were ironed out. Just look at the number of people posting with problems, and the nature of some of those problems.

 

And of course I can't change the,. The "Change program" doesn't work. I had this problem setting them in the first place and had to try 3 different ways before I could actually set default programs, and I've forgotten what I did that worked.

Once again, this OS is not ready to be released. It's a %^&*ing joke

 

I don't know what instructions you were following.
I posted a tutorial asking you to use Option Two.
Here is the rest of my instructions as posted on Post #2.

Scroll down the File type or Protocol table till you see htm link > click it
Then follow step #1 to 7.

For good measure, repeat the same on html link.

 

No. This is a joke. I shouldn't have to download some .reg file, then click OK, then reboot, then click OK., then merge, then check that the registry setting is right, then...

just to make a program open a certain file type.

the OS is a joke. Aren't you all as pissed off as I am about this?

Please don't defend this OS.

I'm not bothering with this %^&* any more

 

I am not defending Microsoft.
I am not a MS fanboy.

You asked a question, I gave you an answer.
That's all I intended to do.