Re: st: Opening Stata datasets from windows explorer in windows vista

[Simon Moore <scmoore.lists@googlemail.com>]

You might try looking at the "Default Programs" in Control Panel Home - 
you will see an option to "Associate file type or protocol with a 
specific program". Here you'll be able to manually specify what program 
is called when a .dta file is opened in explorer.

Simon


Maksim L Pinkovskiy wrote:
> whenever I try to open a Stata dataset by clicking on it in Windows Explorer, I
> get output and an error message of the form:
>
> C:\data\mydataset
> unrecognized command:  C
> r(199);
>
>  This problem also existed in Windows XP but could be fixed; I know that the
> problem arises because Windows is looking for the file "wstata" when it should
> be looking for "wsestata". However, I cannot fix this problem in Vista as the
> control panel menus in Vista are different from those in XP and do not allow
> changing what specific application opens which file type (as far as I can see).
>   I would be very grateful for any help that you could give to me on this
> matter.
>
> Yours Sincerely,
> Maxim Pinkovskiy.
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