https://markjacobsen.net/tags/registry/Recent content in Registry on MarkJacobsen.netHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usTue, 01 Sep 2015 16:33:00 +0000https://markjacobsen.net/2015/09/windows-batch-file-not-running/Tue, 01 Sep 2015 16:33:00 +0000https://markjacobsen.net/2015/09/windows-batch-file-not-running/<p>If you’ve ever accidentally set batch files to open in a text editor, and now are unable to run them anymore you have to use the registry editor instead of the Control Panel file associations. As pointed out in [this article][1]…</p> <ol> <li>Click on “Start”-&gt;”Run” and type in “REGEDT32” and press Enter to start the Registry Editor.</li> <li>Find the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts.BAT\UserChoice</li> <li>Delete the key named “UserChoice”[1]: <a class="link" href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20720404/what-is-the-default-program-to-interpret-windows-batch-file" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20720404/what-is-the-default-program-to-interpret-windows-batch-file</a></li> </ol>