Thursday, April 2, 2009

Skip the Open With web service prompt

In Windows Xp when you try to open a file that has unknown extensions,it automatically asks you to connect to web and check for the applications that supports that file extension but this is not usefull all the time and sometimes annoying and there is a tweak to disable this..

Follow steps below to disable the Open With web service prompt

1>Open registry editor>press win key+R or click on run in start menu and type regedit

2> Go To HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

3> Create a DWORD value called NoInternetOpenWith and double click on it and set its value to 1

This should prevent Open With web service prompt from showingup again.

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