Hi,
Did you try right clicking the file , open with and choose program and check always use the selected program to open this kind of file. That sometimes reassigns the icons.
rajesh
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeph Herrin
Sent: 24 August 2009 15:01
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: AW: double-click on dta file does not work
Yep. That just reassigns the Adobe icons.
ranjit b wrote:
> Have you tried, from within Stata, the "restore file associations" command?
>
> 2009/8/24 Jeph Herrin <[email protected]>:
>> Interesting, I have the same problem - Stata files have
>> Acrobat icons. This is Stata 11. However, I decided to
>> live with it, since I couldnt fix it without uninstalling.
>>
>>
>> ranjit b wrote:
>>> well, multiple times was, admittedly, a hyperbole. In my initial
>>> install, Stata files had the wrong icons ( acrobat pdf icons), and I
>>> could not, for some reason, assign the correct icons to the files by
>>> hand.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>> 2009/8/23 Martin Weiss <[email protected]>:
>>>> <>
>>>>
>>>> " I had previously installed and unistalled Stata multiple times to fix
>>>> another issue"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Just out of curiosity, having never uninstalled Stata for any reason,
>>>> which
>>>> "issue" required you to uninstall "mulitple times"?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> HTH
>>>> Martin
>>>>
>>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>>> Von: [email protected]
>>>> [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von ranjit b
>>>> Gesendet: Sonntag, 23. August 2009 18:13
>>>> An: [email protected]
>>>> Betreff: Re: st: AW: double-click on dta file does not work
>>>>
>>>> Thank you, Martin, for the link. It helped me solving the problem. If
>>>> anyone has a similar issue, here is what I did:
>>>>
>>>> I checked the registry and found that the Stata file associations were
>>>> indeed incorrect (presumably because I had previously installed and
>>>> unistalled Stata multiple times to fix another issue). So, I
>>>> uninstalled Stata again. Then, I used CCleaner
>>>> (http://www.ccleaner.com/) to clean up the registry (the default
>>>> uninstaller does not remove the registry entries when uninstalling
>>>> Stata!). After rebooting, I updated Stata. AFTER the update,
>>>> double-clicking worked again.
>>>>
>>>> Best
>>>>
>>>> R.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2009/8/22 Martin Weiss <[email protected]>:
>>>>> <>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-12/msg00242.html
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> HTH
>>>>> Martin
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>>>> Von: [email protected]
>>>>> [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von ranjit b
>>>>> Gesendet: Samstag, 22. August 2009 22:33
>>>>> An: [email protected]
>>>>> Betreff: st: double-click on dta file does not work
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry for the potential repost. Have sent the email accidentally in
>>>>> html.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> I have Stata 10 installed on my Vista machine. When i click on a .dta
>>>>> file, Stata does not open the file. Instead, Stata gives the following
>>>>> error message:
>>>>> "unrecognized command: "C:\Users\ invalid command name
>>>>> (I can open .dta file without any problems from within Stata through
>>>>> the "open file" dialog).
>>>>> I have had no such problems on my previous computer, which was an XP
>>>>> machine, so I guess that this is a Vista issue.
>>>>> Does anyone have a solution?
>>>>> I am really grateful for any help.
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> R.
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