>> file associations restored
ok.. just checking as that was my immediate thought as what would cause the problem.... as reinstalling notepad wouldnt automatically recreate the file associations.
Yes initially I wondered but Eric assured me he did not use notepad (or anything else external).
Stuart
Dslstats doesn't directly use or call notepad. But WINDOWS needs some text editor to be associated with .ini files that dslstats needs to run. The o/s also needs permission to run notepad.exe, so check perms.
If the file associations or even the paths for notepad.exe are wrong then this can cause problems with any programs that use or create log, com and ini type files. It can be a headache for a programmer if the path for notepad isn't in the default location... Or even going back further I seem to recall problems with notepad.exe location being in sys32 or windows directory and the %path% not being set right. I certainly can recall paths being a pita when using the likes of turbo pascal and the early javac compilers on w2k/winME when I was at college.
I can't google atm as I'm on the ipad, but I'm wondering about the possibility of not all the notepad dependencies being extracted... And if it's worth installing something like notepad++ as the default text editor and associate that with ini files.
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NS posted whilst I was typing this, but leaving my post as was