Saltgrass,
After reading your last thread, it occurred to me that I may have not explained
the current problem status of my Windows7 PC.
If I double left click on any text file it opens with wordpad. Wordpad is currently the
default program for any text file. This works fine.
If I single left click on any text file and then right click and then choose notepad,
the file opens with notepad. Notepad works fine.
If I single left click on any text file and then right click and then choose - choose
default program and then click on notepad, I get the error message "Windows
Shell Common DLL Has Stopped Working".
If I click on Start Menu, then All Programs, then Default Programs and then click
on Associate a file type or protocol with a program, .txt is listed and the default
is wordpad. If I high light .txt and click on change program and select notepad,
I get an error message that IE has stopped and I get a blue screen. The default
for text files has not changed.
If you think the next step is to go into the registry, I am OK with that. I will just
need a lot of guidance.