Unable to associate .not file with Notation 4 (Win7)

[flyingtadpole]

Originally Posted by dj

However, the procedure listed in the Microsoft support file doesn't work. In fact, I can't find any registry entry for Composer.exe.

David, assuming Win10 works similarly to Win7 registry listings, you need to find the registry info from the Microsoft instructions for .not files, not looking for Composer. when you've found the .not associations, there'll be a path associated to a program. After my fiddling, the path went to cakewalk! It's a delete and hand-type the path solution then.


I'll have a look on the one Win10 computer I posses later today myself, and try.


Tim

[flyingtadpole]

More on this: I've had to re-re-reinstall Composer 4.0.2 because of other unrelated things, and having to resort to earlier backups. In the process, I notice that composer.exe, of whichever version of 3 or 4, simply fails to register at all as an application.



While the workaround is to find the .not and .notFILE in the ROOT registry key, and work down their trees to the command, and type in the location of composer.exe, nevertheless it would seem the root cause is Windows not writing Composer (any vintage) to the Registry as an application.