.BAT File Association Broken - help 2

Henry · External Since: Mar 16, 2006 Posts: 66

I tried to select WordPad instead of Notepad to edit .BAT files.
Somehow I screwed up.
Now .BAT files do not work. When I double-click on them, I just see the
contents of the .BAT file displayed by Notepad.
How can I restore the original functionality?
Thanks for your help.
Henry

Dave Patrick · External Since: Oct 18, 2005 Posts: 1654

From a command prompt;
assoc .bat
should return with
..bat=batfile
If not
assoc .bat=batfile
to restore the default file type association.

ftype batfile
should return with
batfile="%1" %*
If not
ftype batfile="%1" %*
to restore the default "Open" action for the file type.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

"Henry" wrote:
|I tried to select WordPad instead of Notepad to edit .BAT files.
| Somehow I screwed up.
| Now .BAT files do not work. When I double-click on them, I just see the
| contents of the .BAT file displayed by Notepad.
| How can I restore the original functionality?
| Thanks for your help.
| Henry

Henry · External Since: Mar 16, 2006 Posts: 66

Dave,
Thanks for your reply.

I did everything you said to do & the results are exactly the same as you
showed.
I guess there is something else going on.
When I click on a .BAT file, Notepad just displays the contents of the .BAT
file and the .BAT file is not executed.
Any other ideas?
Henry

"Dave Patrick" wrote:

> From a command prompt;
> assoc .bat
> should return with
> ..bat=batfile
> If not
> assoc .bat=batfile
> to restore the default file type association.
>
> ftype batfile
> should return with
> batfile="%1" %*
> If not
> ftype batfile="%1" %*
> to restore the default "Open" action for the file type.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
> Microsoft Certified Professional
> Microsoft MVP [Windows]
> http://www.microsoft.com/protect
>
> "Henry" wrote:
> |I tried to select WordPad instead of Notepad to edit .BAT files.
> | Somehow I screwed up.
> | Now .BAT files do not work. When I double-click on them, I just see the
> | contents of the .BAT file displayed by Notepad.
> | How can I restore the original functionality?
> | Thanks for your help.
> | Henry
>
>
>

Dave Patrick · External Since: Oct 18, 2005 Posts: 1654

Run regedit.exe and navigate to;

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\batfile\shell\open\command
make sure the Reg_Sz
(default)
value data is exactly;
"%1" %*

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\batfile\shell\edit\command
make sure the Reg_Expand_Sz
(default)
value data is exactly;
%SystemRoot%\System32\NOTEPAD.EXE %1

Also look for the key;
..BAT
under
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts
and delete the key named
..BAT

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

"Henry" wrote:
| Dave,
| Thanks for your reply.
|
| I did everything you said to do & the results are exactly the same as you
| showed.
| I guess there is something else going on.
| When I click on a .BAT file, Notepad just displays the contents of the
..BAT
| file and the .BAT file is not executed.
| Any other ideas?
| Henry

Henry · External Since: Mar 16, 2006 Posts: 66

Dave,

You are a GENIUS!

The first 2 items were exactly as you specfied. But when I deleted the .BAT
in the HKCU area, it fixed the problem. Now my .BAT files execute correctly.

Thank you, thank you, thank you
Henry

"Dave Patrick" wrote:

> Run regedit.exe and navigate to;
>
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\batfile\shell\open\command
> make sure the Reg_Sz
> (default)
> value data is exactly;
> "%1" %*
>
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\batfile\shell\edit\command
> make sure the Reg_Expand_Sz
> (default)
> value data is exactly;
> %SystemRoot%\System32\NOTEPAD.EXE %1
>
>
> Also look for the key;
> ..BAT
> under
> HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts
> and delete the key named
> ..BAT
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
> Microsoft Certified Professional
> Microsoft MVP [Windows]
> http://www.microsoft.com/protect
>
> "Henry" wrote:
> | Dave,
> | Thanks for your reply.
> |
> | I did everything you said to do & the results are exactly the same as you
> | showed.
> | I guess there is something else going on.
> | When I click on a .BAT file, Notepad just displays the contents of the
> ..BAT
> | file and the .BAT file is not executed.
> | Any other ideas?
> | Henry
>
>
>

Dave Patrick · External Since: Oct 18, 2005 Posts: 1654

Good to hear. You're welcome.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

"Henry" wrote:
| Dave,
|
| You are a GENIUS!
|
| The first 2 items were exactly as you specfied. But when I deleted the
..BAT
| in the HKCU area, it fixed the problem. Now my .BAT files execute
correctly.
|
| Thank you, thank you, thank you
| Henry

"cquirke · External Since: Mar 06, 2005 Posts: 825

On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 11:23:01 -0700, Henry

>Dave, You are a GENIUS!

>The first 2 items were exactly as you specfied. But when I deleted the .BAT
>in the HKCU area, it fixed the problem. Now my .BAT files execute correctly.

The background to this is that XP now allows per-account overrides for
file associations, so HKCR is no longer a simple alias pointing to
HKLM...Classes. In your case, there was an override in HK(C)U.

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mr_z · Joined: Feb 16, 2009 Posts: 1

I had the same problem with Vista.
The step in Dave's reply to do with removing the .bat entry worked for me.
Just a minor difference however. Under Vista it is as follows:
Delete:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.bat