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In article <LavSRDAnJUr6Ewpk@phemings.demon.co.uk> Peter Hemmings wrote:

>I am a keen "middle aged amateur" and have tried to remove an index DAT
>file in my "cookies" folder!!  I used Norton utils but couldn't erase it

Not worth it - index.dat will be recreated whenever you re-start Windows
if you have IE present.

>then tried to open it using wordpad before realizing it was used by
>windows (98)! The problem is that I cannot remove reference to wordpad
>in the "Folder Options" menu as W98 will not allow a blank in this field
>although this was its default setting.
>My question is can remove reference to "opens with Wordpad.exe" and if
>so how, or, is it OK to leave as it is?

I don't use Win98 so I'm not sure which menu you are referring to. I
suspect you have now associated .dat files with Wordpad, which will not
in itself do any harm, but nor is it likely to be very useful - and if
you one day load a different .dat file into Wordpad you may perhaps end
up altering and saving it, and thus disable something.

If that is the case, one solution is to open any Windows folder, go to
View, Folder Options, File Types and select DAT files - then delete the
option to Open them (as you say, you cannot merely choose to open them
with nothing).

BTW, this newsgroup is for discussion about using Win95 for IP
connections to Demon - general questions about Windows are better
directed to something like uk.comp.os.win95, where you are likely to get
far more expert responses than mine :)

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Paul Terry

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