What controls inter-program links?

luckat

My links seem to have gone blooey upon installing RealAudio on my computer, which is on a network (NT Workstation). When I try to invoke RealAudio from a website using Internet Explorer - say, to hear a radio programme; or when I try to invoke Internet Explorer through clicking on an http link in Outlook Express, the invoked program crashes or freezes.

So if I have IE open, and I try to click through from an Outlook email's blue-clicky address to open a web page, IE crashes.

If I'm in IE and I click on "Listen live" on a BBC or RTE page, RealAudio opens, but freezes.

What I'm wondering is this: is there a control panel that holds all these links, and says what should happen when you click on a hypertext link in an email, or on a "listen live" link on a web page? And if so, how do I re-educate it?

DonkeyStyle \o/

Start > Run > explorer > Tools > Folder options > File Types

luckat

Explain this for the slow:

windows key + R = run

Type "explorer" in here, and a Windows Explorer window comes up.

Somewhere in one of the network drives here I should find the Tools... path?

Chalk

its the tools menus
you cans et what program ipens what filetypes.

see screenshot>>>

DonkeyStyle \o/

[edit] Yeah, what he said ^

luckat

Sorry, I still don't understand. How do I tell it to open a .smil file using RealPlayer?

DonkeyStyle \o/

Aha, wait a second, you said you're using NT?
Eurgh, yeah no wonder you couldn't find tools... my bad.
It's probably something more like "explorer.exe>View>Options>Folder Options"
I can't remember, it's been ages since I've even looked at NT.

Anyway, what you're looking for (assuming it even exists in NT) is a dialog that lets you change file associations... it's basically a list menu where you scroll down to the filetype you want to change and click another button to change the program that handles it... it's easy enough to use once you find it.

On XP or 2K it'd be accessed through the 'Tools' menu in an explorer window... but being NT it's probably something else... as far as I can remember Windows9x had it as the one I mentioned at the top of this post... might be the same for NT.
Either way, it always seems to have been accessible from explorer.

luckat

Ha! Worked! Thanks!!