Restore any Filetype problem in Windows XP

For those people who have any problem with while opening any file type not opening in the default windows gui. I have made a whole registry file.

The problems with filetypes include zip not opening under explorer. Any picture file not opening in the windows defualt viewer.

Note : This file will overwrite any changes made to filetypes by any other program by windows defualts

Change MS Word 2007 Defualt Saving Format from .Docx to .Doc

Microsoft has introduced new formats with Office 07 that created many problems for users of Office 2003 or earlier and OpenOffice Users (OpenOffice currently does not support Office 07 formats)

The only thing you can do to prevent this

Default Word Saving Format

1. Open Microsoft Word 2007
2. Click the “Office Button” (top left of your screen), then on the bottom of the list click “Word Options”
   
3. The “Word Options” window will open. Now click on “Save” in the left panel
4. Change the top option (in the right panel) “save files in this format” from “Word Document (*.docx)” to “Word 97-2003 Document (*.doc)“
5. Click “OK”

New Context Menu Blank Doc Document

Next thing you want to change must be, the New Context Menu to create the Blank .doc document. So here is a reg file to do that. Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

Eliminate the Docx Blank Document

After applying it you may be seeing two options for word document. You can eliminate the .docx blank document by applying this file

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To undo the above operation run this file

Search has been Removed in the Context menu (Windows Vista SP1)

While using Windows Vista SP1 you may have noticed that the option of search has been removed from Start Menu, File Folder and Drive Context Menu.

The search can be recoverd

To do this open

Regedit

go to

and remove the key LegacyDisable.

Next go to

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\find

and remove the key LegacyDisable

To Automate the task download the file

Get Search Option Back in Windows Vista Start Menu

Windows vista service pack 1 has changed search option but you can get them back

The method used to get the search option back either replaced your Help and Support option with your search or RUN with the search

To replace Help and Support with search run this reg file

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To replace RUN with search run this reg file

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Note: If you wand to get the Help and Support back click here

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If you wand to get the RUN back click here