How to change to the proper PDF reader?
- Thread starter Propeller
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Perhaps I didn't word my question correctly.
When I first open Trainz 10 up a blue square appears in the center of the screen with 8 options and radio buttons. One of the options is labeled "Manual". I had clicked on this "Manual" radio button and by mistake assigned Word as the program to open the manual. Now I realize that the "Manual" file is a PDF file and that is what I should have assigned. Unfortunately now everytime I click on the "Manual" radio button it goes to Word and it doesn't allow me to reassign Adobe PDF reader.
When I first open Trainz 10 up a blue square appears in the center of the screen with 8 options and radio buttons. One of the options is labeled "Manual". I had clicked on this "Manual" radio button and by mistake assigned Word as the program to open the manual. Now I realize that the "Manual" file is a PDF file and that is what I should have assigned. Unfortunately now everytime I click on the "Manual" radio button it goes to Word and it doesn't allow me to reassign Adobe PDF reader.
Go into "My Computer", click Tools->Folder Options->File Types->PDF->Change you can then select whatever program to associate with PDF files. Be sure to tick "Always use the selected..." and you probably will have to navigate via the Browse button to your Adobe Reader installation, but that should set it permanently or until you change it.
RRSignal, that works in XP - why do I wish I still used it?:-( Unfortuntely in win7 I could never find file types or file associations listed in the tool menu.
In win7 I had to open the control panel -> select default programs -> select Associate a file tye or protocol with a specific program -> select the extension from the list -> hit change program button -> select from programs shown or browse to the correct one.
On and be sure to tick "Always use the selected..." - well maybe somethings stay the same.
Bob Pearson
In win7 I had to open the control panel -> select default programs -> select Associate a file tye or protocol with a specific program -> select the extension from the list -> hit change program button -> select from programs shown or browse to the correct one.
On and be sure to tick "Always use the selected..." - well maybe somethings stay the same.
Bob Pearson
Bob,
Thank you very much, your post was on the button. Everything worked.
I truley believe that there is a group at Microsoft that could see me trying to fix that problem and they were getting a big kick out of all the stumbling I was doing. But, thanks to you I was able to beat them at their own game and put a stop to their fun.
Thank you very much, your post was on the button. Everything worked.
I truley believe that there is a group at Microsoft that could see me trying to fix that problem and they were getting a big kick out of all the stumbling I was doing. But, thanks to you I was able to beat them at their own game and put a stop to their fun.
Bob,
Thank you very much, your post was on the button. Everything worked.
I truley believe that there is a group at Microsoft that could see me trying to fix that problem and they were getting a big kick out of all the stumbling I was doing. But, thanks to you I was able to beat them at their own game and put a stop to their fun.
Jim,
Actually they have new interface designs that put all the stupid stuff like this under the hidden stupid stuff menu so you'll never remember where it is. The actual name of the menu is Stupid ****, because that's what it's called after you fix the problem.
Their other job is to take simple tasks and move the interface to some ghastly unkown location so you'll never find it, because the last time you did the same thing, it was in a slightly different version that had the options in a more obvious place. Oh am I talking about Microsoft Office, which now has that stupid ribbon thing?
John
Can I get an AMEN?
And, as for Office, I actually find 2007 and later totally unusable, to the point that if someone tries to send 2007/2010 docs, xlsx, powerpoints, etc. to me, I'll kick them back with a request to resave or redo in 2003; I won't even try to look at them even though I can get the converter.
Fortunately, many if not most in the business world have not up..I mean downgraded yet.
I agree totally. Software businesses like Microsoft employ all these bright pimply faced people straight out of school who feel they have to change everything to justify their employment. It's a game to them.. like every thing else they do with a PC.
For people like me, who built my first computer from a pile of IC's (way before MSDOS), all this change is a bit hard to keep up with. At work my first computer had MSDOS with a 10MB hard disk, WordPerfect and SuperCalc. Then along came MS Windows 3.1 (16 bit) WOW. MS Word actually worked quite well in those days though it was a bit short on features.
Oh well, enough nostalgia.. Were they the good old days???.. No... we didn't have Trainz......
For people like me, who built my first computer from a pile of IC's (way before MSDOS), all this change is a bit hard to keep up with. At work my first computer had MSDOS with a 10MB hard disk, WordPerfect and SuperCalc. Then along came MS Windows 3.1 (16 bit) WOW. MS Word actually worked quite well in those days though it was a bit short on features.
Oh well, enough nostalgia.. Were they the good old days???.. No... we didn't have Trainz......
You got it: AMEN!
Yeah, I'm one of htose teens that just take to new technology real well, but not new program interfaces. I'd still use the 2003 bar if I could.... but that could cost money to get an old liscence, not to mention possibly corrupting my current 2010 install...
Please, blame those programmers and not me, they hinder the work of people, but I just make the robot work however you want it.
Peter,
If we could still have everything working this simply yet have Trainz, it would be Heaven.
I too came from that era. I started building video terminals, and later became a technician that fixed them as well as early PCs. I still have a Visual Commuter Computer from 1983 that works perfectly.
John
http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/bofh/
This sums up everything perfectly and it's a good poke at Microsoft and Adobe, etc.
John
This sums up everything perfectly and it's a good poke at Microsoft and Adobe, etc.
John
Please go register your game first before kicking 8 months old topics
https://www.auran.com/planetauran/SN_Enter_Serialnumber.php
Thanks.