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Thanks Paul, 
In article <pE2D4fAovnr6EAs8@musonix.com>, Paul Terry
<paul@musonix.demon.co.uk> writes
>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.
Yep I eventually realized this!
>
>>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).
Yes, this was precisely my problem 
>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 :)
Sorry to everyone for the intrusion, I read the title but the missed the
"IP" (honest).  Thanks for correcting me with diplomacy.
-- 
Peter Hemmings