I make a mde file and when I click on the Access icon the db it opens in 
Textpad and not in Access.

This has not happened before...can someone offer some help

I have ldb files open in notepad (since they are just text documents 
anyway), but not mde.

nonetheless, it's easy to make a file type open with a particular app - 
all you have to do is (and this does depend somewhat on what version of 
Windows yr using, I'm using XP):

go to Windows explorer, go to folder options in the tools menu,
go to file types
scroll down till you get to mde, hit change and then choose Access.

HTH

Steven

Hai,

Please do the following
1) Start -> Settings --> Folder Options
2)In folder options you will have tabs a) General b) View c) File types
3) Select the file types tab
4) Under Registered file types list box  go to Microsoft Access Application
5) In File type details you must have
    a) Extension     - mdb
    b) contentype(MIME)  application/msaccess
    c) Open with       MSACCESS

   here you must have problem  ie  open with must be with textpad.
To rectify
6) click edit button
7) by clicking change icon button you can bring MSaccess icon
8) Default extension for content type  must be .mdb  otherwise alter that (
ie   .mdb)
9) under Actions you will have new and open
10) after editing click OK, come back to previous screen. Verify all the
items in step 5 tally. Then press OK and come out.
Now when you press mdb files  it will open in MSAccess only and not in
Textpad.

Please check up.


murugan


-------Original Message-------

From: Access
Date: Thursday, January 01, 1970 05:30:00 AM
To: Access
Subject: [access] mde file opens in textpad

I make a mde file and when I click on the Access icon the db it opens in 
Textpad and not in Access.

This has not happened before...can someone offer some help
.