In Windows 7 if I open "documents" I can see my files but if I double click on one I get a dialogue box inviting me to "save" it. I dont want to save it - it is already there! How do I open it?
Same problem if I try to find all files of a similar name in the "start search" box of the start menu. - I can see them but it wont let me open them.
Sorry if this is a forum regular question - I couldn't find it under a number of different searches.
Do you have permission to open the file?
https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...rmissions.html
To Richc46
Thanks for the reply - Yes I do have full permissions and the file does not have "hidden" or "read only" attributes
Hi Dzomlija
Thanks for your reply - Any idea on how I can check your suggestion that the files might be set to open with Internet Explorer?
The files I am interested in are all text or spreadsheet and I have set OpenOffice as the default program for anything it can open.
Hi All,
I seem to have answered my own question.
When I click on "documents" or "my documents" I am only offered "organise, views or burn" but when I click on a single file it also opens the "open" option. I double clicked on the file name and that is why it jumped straight to the "save" dialogue box.
Sorry to waste your time but your answers have given me a bit of help in understanding the problem.
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