Disable The ‘Use Web Service To Find The Correct Program’ Prompt In XP
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When you try to open a file in XP that has an unknown extension, a dialog box appears asking if you want to use a Web service to find a program to open the file.
You can edit the registry to disable the dialog box from appearing in which case, you will receive a list of application to use to open the file instead.
- Click Start and click Run.
- Type regedit.exe and click OK.
- Navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer.
- From the Edit menu, point to New, and click DWORD.
- Type NoInternetOpenWith and press Enter.
- Double click the DWORD value and type in a value of 1.
- Close the Registry Editor.
6 Comments
Chris Wooff
April 23rd, 2008
at 12:33am
I think you mean “NoInternetOpenWith”
Dale
April 23rd, 2008
at 4:54am
Missing a T in step 5.
NoInernetOpenWith should be: NoInternetOpenWith
Whiskeyman
April 23rd, 2008
at 4:58am
You forgot a letter.
NoInternetOpenWith
Whiskeyman
April 23rd, 2008
at 5:05am
You should use the following path.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ System
Mike
April 23rd, 2008
at 8:30am
In step 5 is the DWORD value mispelled? Shouldn’t it be NoInternetOpenWith? It appears to be missing the ‘t’ in internet.
LF
May 17th, 2008
at 8:07pm
Thanks for your post, I found it via Google. I think, however, the key is ‘NoInternetOpenWith’ - you seem to be missing a T .