i found the file but its not a notepad file...its a sound file...how do i open it using notepad
Here's a very cool Windows trick:
Using Windows Explorer, look in the Windows directory for notepad.exe
Right-click on it, and "Copy"
Find and go to the directory C:\Documents and Settings\[your user name]\SendTo
(Replace [your user name] with whatever is your logon name for your computer. It may be your actual name; this
depends upon how your computer has been set up)
In this directory window (the right side panel) Right-click "Paste Shortcut"
There should now be a shortcut to Notepad, in this directory
Now, whenever you select a file, you can open it in Notepad by right-clicking on it and, in the "Send To" menuitem,
selecting Notepad (it may actually say "notepad.exe" but you can rename the shortcut that you have placed in the
SendTo directory).
Instead of putting the shortcut in your own SendTo directory, you can probably put the shortcut in C:\Documents and
Settings\Default User\SendTo
However, I just tried it (with another .exe), and the shortcut did not appear in the context menu. This may simply be
because you have to reboot for it to be recognized. It appears immediately, if placed in your own SendTo directory,
but it may not be available for all users, there (if this matters to you).
***The above procedure applies to WindowsXP Pro, but a similar thing can be done for Windows98 and, I'm sure,
WindowsXP home edition; you'll have to search for the SendTo directory, though, before putting your Notepad
shortcut in it.***
Anyway, I look at (and sometimes edit) various kinds of files, using Notepad, VERY often, and this is a way to
make that quick and easy, without any necessity to change file associations. For some kinds of files, of course, what
appears in Notepad, may not be very intelligible, but .m3u files are basically text files, so they can be loaded and
edited, using this method.
Be sure, if editing and saving files, in Notepad, that the saved file ends up with the correct file extension. For
example, you may create and save a file called MyMP3s.m3u, in Notepad, and it gets saved as MyMP3s.m3u.txt, which
will not be recognizable as actually being an .m3u file. This can be corrected, however, just by renaming it to
eliminate the ".txt" extension. Generally, though, if you load, edit and re-save an already existing file, it will be saved
with its original name, and so, will not require such renaming.
David
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