Accessing Excel.xls files

[dedndave]

unless my eyes are worse than i thought, it looks like the standard windows icon for text files
what am i missing ?   

[Magnum]

It's set to open with Qeditor which it does.

Even I set it to open with another editor, the icon is again unchanged. ??

I don't know if it's Microdaft or as Captain Picard's calls an "anomaly". 

I asked some M.S. C++ programmers for help with my PSDK installation where it kept trying to reinstall whenever I logged in.

They didn't know what a PSDK was..Maybe the O.S. is being farmed out.

I believe I read that many o.s.'s are written in C with some inline assembly.

I read where they lost one of their versions of DOS code.

Andy

[japheth]

Even I set it to open with another editor, the icon is again unchanged. ??

Perhaps it is because the new editor doesn't bother to change the entry DefaultIcon in the registry? It usually points to a resource in shell32.dll ( see the attached picture ).

If I change the resource from -152 to, say, -151, the icon will change after explorer has restarted ( to make explorer terminate, you'll have to a) select "Shut Down" in the Start menu, then b) hold down shift, ctrl + alt keys and click "Cancel". Once it's terminated, you can restart it via Ctrl-Alt-Del and Task Manager. ).

[Magnum]

Thanks for the info.

Will get back,

TinyWatcher just found some driver files that were created in my system32 directory. ??

I am investigating them.

Andy

[japheth]

Will get back,

TinyWatcher just found some driver files that were created in my system32 directory. ??

No problem. Actually, I would have been rather surprised if no distraction had occured. Like in the good, old soap operas of the old days it's always a good idea to have a handful of threads open concurrently - to ensure that the audience's attention will not fade away.

Btw., I'm still eager to learn how the "MS vs. msfn.org" challenge ( http://masm32.com/board/index.php?topic=1328.0 ) is going on and can't wait to read how the riddle is finally solved. Would be uncool if the thread is just terminated so abruptly - in good soaps, there's always a "solution", an "explanation"; it doesn't matter if it's silly, bizarre or absurd. And you did promise not to give up, if I may remind you!