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Re: Restore INDEX>DAT file icon
de nobody 05/24/2006 09:35
"rj65" <rj65@mailinator.com> wrote in message
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> Pesche wrote:
> > My INDEX.DAT files (in Cookies) have ended up with a WINDOWS
> > MEDIA PLAYER icon.
>
> OK, I've read through all the other suggestions and noted that
they
> didn't work for you. How about trying something a little more
radical?
>
> Uninstall Windows Media Player. That should get rid of the
rogue
> association. Then download it from Microsoft, and install it
again,
> hopefully leaving a clean system free of .DAT associations.
Maybe a simple reinstall on top might do the trick.
>
> Personally, having got rid of WMP I would just leave it
permanently off
> and install Media Player Classic instead, but that's an
entirely
> different story :-)
>
> --
> Rohit
>