Service Packs - Info On 1-3
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Folders I had set up directly on the C: were still there, yet all of 'My Documents' were gone...
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Jul 7, 2005Are you saying that this will fix my jpeg rollover / info problem? I'm not to comfortable fooling with the registry unless I have a pretty good idea.
David Candy Wrote:
> I'm only doing jpeg
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.jpeg
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTdefault value from above key
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTjpegfile
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTSystemFileAssociations.jpeg
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTSystemFileAssociationsimage
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