We have two programs on our main computer with the same exact file extension (.php). Now every time we try to open a HTML file our greeting card program opens up instead
How do we change the file extension to one of the programs so that they no longer conflict?
If you mean that your greeting card program is saving files with the .php extension, then it would not hurt to point the .php files to IE. You could still run the program without IE opening. The downside would be having to 'Open With...' every time you want to open a .php with the greeting card prog.
This will also fix the problem if the program is set to be the default viewer of .php files.
You could still use the program to open these files, you'd just have to do it from within the program.
Why any program would want to use a .php extention is beyond me...surely the makers could see the conflict...
I chose "New" and made a file extension called PH2, and then I told it that from this day forth everything with a PH2 extension would be for the greeting card program. Now I think I just have to open the greeting card folder up and rename all of them PH2 and it should work... key word is should
I did a search for .php and it said that I had over 2000 files with that extension on it
Most of them are computer scripts so I don't want to rename those I looked in the card programs folder and I didn't see any files with that extension. I'll have to weed through all of those files and manually rename the ones for the card program. Might be easier to just install the card program on another computer I just hope that when I delete the program that it doesn't delete any of those 2000 files
I have a couple of them. The one that is causing all of the problems is called American Greetings Creat a Card by Broderbund.
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