CMD 'batch file' no longer performs in Win7 Ultimate (32bit)


  1. Posts : 60
    Win7 Ultimate x32
       #1

    CMD 'batch file' no longer performs in Win7 Ultimate (32bit)


    For over a year, double clicking 'file.cmd' would trigger the correct response. Now, a double-click merely opens it in a text editor. When I try to change the file association, I find that "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" is greyed out, with an indelible/irremovable tick for a text editor. I need two things : 1. How to reverse the greying out and 2. What program to recommend to run the CMD.
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  2. Posts : 9,582
    Windows 8.1 Pro RTM x64
       #2

    See Default File Type Associations - Restore


    The file you require is listed as cmd and is for Windows command script files.
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  3. Posts : 60
    Win7 Ultimate x32
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Dwarf
    Thank you so much - your remedy worked perfectly.
    I posted this question in 5 forums. Yours was the first reply received, as well as being 'correct'.

    I might add that when I checked the 'new' file association, it was listed as 'unknown application'. I have since changed that to Windows Command Processor, and hope it STAYS functional.
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