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Technical Help & Discussion => Windows PCs & Software: Help, News & Discussion => Topic started by: greenking on January 12, 2004, 18:18
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I have a few NFO files that I cant open with anything >:(
Can somebody tell me what they are and how to open then please :)
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NFO files are information and always open in notepad for me GK ???
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the defualt in windows xp is the cpu info program. and it's a right pain the the backside when i want to open an nfo file from a zip file.
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A simple way of fixing that is to open up "my computer", select "tools", "folder options", "file types" and simply change the NFO association. You can then associate them with notepad/wordpad etc.
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i spose. but i don't wanna bugger up anything
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All that does is give you a little menu saying "what do you want to associate the files with". You can then choose notepad/wordpad or whatever.
If you find you don't like it then simply change it back :)
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Thanks for your help all, I opened it OK but it was no help once i'd opened it ;D
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Thanks for your help all, I opened it OK but it was no help once i'd opened it ;D
I hope you told it to naff off, Greenking ;D :o ;)
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A simple way of fixing that is to open up "my computer", select "tools", "folder options", "file types" and simply change the NFO association. You can then associate them with notepad/wordpad etc.
:good: Or you could right click the file & chose "open with", but UNcheck "allways use this prog" first!. Why were you you tyring to open it?,
just out of interest. ;)
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Doesnt always work with XP unfortunately Dave, unless its not already associated with a program to open it with :(
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All that does is give you a little menu saying "what do you want to associate the files with". You can then choose notepad/wordpad or whatever.
If you find you don't like it then simply change it back :)
i'v been using computers since windows 3.1. i think i know how to change a file association ::)
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Beat you :)
I've been doing it since "load the operating system off tape" days.
You mean you missed out on the joys of GEM and Windows 1.0!
Now back to the sucking eggs forums ;)
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My 1st was a sinclair speccy 16k, there were no pc's back then. I was so chuffed when I upgraded to a "BBC b". A whole 640k of ram & a 5 1/4" foppy!.
Mind you, we were lucky!, we did live in an "oil in't rooad" @ the time.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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I believe Adepts first computer was a Sinclair ZX80. (Or was it 81?)
My first regular used one was a Research Machines 380Z in about 1979.
Home computers: Atari 400 (Anyone for Archon ;) ), TI994A (for a bit), Spectrum 48k (dead flesh keyboard edition), Atari ST, Numerous PC's.
Also played on a few other things: Acorn Archimedes, Atari Stacy + Falcon, Amiga 500, Oric, Lynx.
I now feel incredibly old.......:)
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I upgraded to a "BBC b". A whole 640k of ram & a 5 1/4" foppy!.
You're getting old Nutter! Unless you were incredibly rich, you would have had 32K in your Beeb ;)
I believe Adepts first computer was a Sinclair ZX80. (Or was it 81?)
Yeah it was a ZX-80. I built it from a kit :o A while later I upgraded the hardware so that it pretended it was a ZX-81. Then I got a BBC A, which I upgraded to B spec with the help of that kid whose mother worked in AB Electronics where the Beebs were made. Do you remember him?
After the Beeb (I still have it BTW), I got an Atari ST 1024 (I think). Didn't have it long - I "upgraded" to a second-hand 286. I still have the same machine, it's served me well. I've only had to change the processor, motherboard, hard disk, floppy drive, cd-rom and case ;D ;D
I now feel incredibly old.......:)
Ditto :-[
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Yeah it was a ZX-80. I built it from a kit :o A while later I upgraded the hardware so that it pretended it was a ZX-81. Then I got a BBC A, which I upgraded to B spec with the help of that kid whose mother worked in AB Electronics where the Beebs were made. Do you remember him?
That would be Dodgy Mark IIRC :) I got banned from his house by his parents after an incident where I might have insinuated he was gay to his mother and her best friend :-[ ........I later found out he started doing the computer fairs and conning people :o He was selling broken hard drives and claiming they could be RMA'd back to the companies. A LOT of people were looking for him at one point (including IBM).
After the Beeb (I still have it BTW), I got an Atari ST 1024 (I think). Didn't have it long - I "upgraded" to a second-hand 286. I still have the same machine, it's served me well. I've only had to change the processor, motherboard, hard disk, floppy drive, cd-rom and case ;D ;D
(c) trigger ;)
If you check out that www.atari.st (http://www.atari.st) site and have a look at some of the Automation disks you may find some of my old work ;)
Been getting a few good deals from shops recently so house is full of machines, girlfriend very unimpressed. Current setups:
P4 @3.0G hyperthreading, with 512 ram, DVD Writer etc - cost me £400
P4 @2.8G hyperthreading, with 512 ram, DVD Writer etc (cost me £150 :o did have a broken hard drive though, which I've RMA'd)
XP2500 system
XP1800 system
AMD K6-2-450 system
P2 - 333
Now run out of places to store things and, since all are internet machines, I keep losing emails - can never remember which machine I downloaded them to :)
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Now run out of places to store things and, since all are internet machines, I keep losing emails - can never remember which machine I downloaded them to :)
I can do that with just one machine! ;D ;D
Did either of you two have that Atari Ping Pong thing you plugged into your TV, and if you left it on for long enough, it would burn your screen? :o I still have that somewhere. I was totally addicted to it when I was about 12 or 13.
:sadgit:
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Um....I was on holiday in York recently and picked up one of them for 50p. Its the Binatone TV Master plus. A black and white games console with 4 games (and two more if I get the light gun).
Bright orange dayglo plastic ;D
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I started with a Spectrum 16K which I upgraded to 48K.
That was followed with a BBC Master and an Archimedes.
Then it was PC's and I had a 386, 486, 200MHz, 600, 1200, 1900 and 2200 Athlons. The 200, 600 and 1200 machines were all given to good homes when I finished with them and are all still in daily use. I gave the earlier machines away too but I don't know if they are still in use.
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Um....I was on holiday in York recently and picked up one of them for 50p. Its the Binatone TV Master plus. A black and white games console with 4 games (and two more if I get the light gun).
Bright orange dayglo plastic ;D
Ooooh I had one of those :)