How to get 'process' option back in Windows (vista)

[Graham Mullan]

What are you all on about?

Open Windows Explorer, the file management thing. On he menu bar hit 
"Tools" -> "Folder Options" -> "View" and untick the box that says "Hide 
extensions for known file types".

Then you will always see the extension and will know that Notepad is 
trying to save your shiny new file with a .txt extension and you can 
change it to a .svx one, instead.

It's not rocket science.

Graham
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On 27/09/2013 14:01, Philip Balister wrote:
> On 09/27/2013 08:34 AM, Matt Kirby wrote:
>> Wookey
>>
>> WHAT? Wookey using a Windows based programme.....well I never, what's the
>> world coming to? ;-)
>
> I'm pretty sure someone hacked his account.
>
> Philip
>
>>
>> I use Vista all the time and have just tried to replicate what you are
>> trying to do.
>>
>> As you say, the right click option does provide the 'process' option for
>> svx
>> files, but it's got to have the .svx file extension for survex to recognise
>> it.
>>
>> I sometimes forget to put the .svx when opening/naming a new file in
>> notepad
>> and it defaults to a .txt notepad file. This means survex doesn't recognise
>> it as a readable/processable file so when you right click the 'process'
>> option isn't there. It also doesn't appear with the survex icon in Windows
>> Explorer, this is also the way to find the "whole effing filename including
>> extension", right click and press the 'properties' option, the file path
>> and
>> type are there under the 'General' tab.
>>
>> I've tried the wordpad option and pasted one of our Mulu files into it,
>> then
>> done a 'save as' and put the .svx extension on the end (would otherwise
>> default to a .rtf extension). It appears with a survex icon (in  Windows
>> Explorer) and allows it to be processed with a right click. It sounds as if
>> you have omitted to put the .svx on the end when 'saving as'.
>>
>> Hope this helps..........................enjoy your Windows 'experience'
>> ;-)
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Wookey" <wookey at wookware.org>
>> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 11:50 AM
>> To: "Survex User Group" <survex at survex.com>
>> Subject: How to get 'process' option back in Windows (vista)
>>
>>> I have had to use Windows (vista) for some data process for 1st time
>>> in a decade. Yum. Being a linux person I have very little idea what I
>>> am doing.
>>>
>>> When I first installed survex it handily had a 'process' option in the
>>> right-click menu for .svx files. (Oh yeah, and how do I get Windows to
>>> show me the whole effing filename inlcuding extension?!)
>>>
>>> But 'opening' a file openned it in notepad which puts everything on
>>> one line if the file came from unix which is 100% useless. So I
>>> changed it to use wrodpad instead. All well and good. But now my
>>> 'process' option seems to have evaporated. How do I get it back?
>>>
>>> I can change the default 'open with' action to use cavern but that's
>>> not very helpful either. Perhaps I could change it to cavern and then
>>> set the default back to wordpad, and that would leave cavern showing
>>> in the 'open with' menu?
>>>
>>> Clues welcome.
>>>
>>> Wookey
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>>>
>>
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