James Egan wrote:

> Not always.
>
> As an example you might try renaming a MS Word .doc file to (say) .hje
> or some other extension which doesn't have a specific association with
> another program and then double clicking it. You will see that it
> still opens in Word because the file structure is still recognised as
> a word document even though you renamed it.

Mine ask what to open the program with when I do that. :)

Xp Pro sp1a on both machines. I'll test an sp2 machine at work.

Regards,
Dustin Cook
http://bughunter.atspace.org