I wake up to Windows doing THIS?!

[deadly7]

Apparently in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, my .dat folder is gone. Which would be why I'm seeing all DAT files with a Windows Media Player icon! Any idea how this happened/how to fix it so that no program opens it, but so that it actually has a file recognition? I tried the "Tools -> Folder Options -> File Types -> Add" but I didn't know what to put.

I run WinXP Pro

[Ergot]

Remove the dat entry silly.

[deadly7]

Uh, there IS no DAT entry in this computer, but there is on the other one. It happened like a week ago now that I remember it actually, I just noticed it now.

[iago]

You can right-click, click "Open with...", pick the proper program, and check "Always use this program"?

[Ergot]

He wants it so that there is no program association.

[Joe]

Open regedit

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

delete HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/.dat folder

[deadly7]

nevermind. And you people were confuzzled by what I said, but I somehow found the folder yet not the file type. I'm so fucking confused...

Topic closed, as it doesn't try to open with WMP anymore.