{"id":103,"date":"2009-08-21T22:25:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T03:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2009-08-22T13:38:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T18:38:21","slug":"how-to-disable-the-unknown-file-dialog-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/how-to-disable-the-unknown-file-dialog-box","title":{"rendered":"Feature Focus: How to disable the &#8220;Windows cannot open this file&#8221; dialog box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever clicked on some file in Windows and seen this dialog box, you know what I&#8217;m talking about:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-104\" title=\"unknown-file-dialog\" src=\"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/unknown-file-dialog.png\" alt=\"unknown-file-dialog\" width=\"480\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The web service is <a href=\"http:\/\/community.winsupersite.com\/blogs\/paul\/archive\/2009\/07\/13\/the-most-useless-dialog-in-windows.aspx\">completely useless<\/a>, and most of the time you already know what program you want to use to open the file. Luckily, it is easy to disable this dialog box with <a href=\"http:\/\/defaultprogramseditor.com\">Default Programs Editor<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/defaultprogramseditor.com\/download\">download<\/a>). Simply launch the program, and click on the Options button:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_105\" style=\"width: 659px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105\" class=\"size-full wp-image-105\" title=\"options-button\" src=\"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/options-button.png\" alt=\"options-button\" width=\"649\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/options-button.png 649w, https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/options-button-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Options button<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Then, click the button that says<\/p>\n<pre>Disable 'Search web for unknown extension' Dialog Box<\/pre>\n<div id=\"attachment_107\" style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107\" title=\"disable-unknown-extension-dialog\" src=\"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/disable-unknown-extension-dialog1.png\" alt=\"Disable 'Search web for unknown extension' Dialog Box\" width=\"636\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/disable-unknown-extension-dialog1.png 636w, https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/disable-unknown-extension-dialog1-300x221.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Disable &#39;Search web for unknown extension&#39; Dialog Box<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n<p>Now, when you try to open a file with an unknown extension, Windows will skip the unknown extension dialog and display the &#8220;Open With&#8230;&#8221; window to choose a program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever clicked on some file in Windows and seen this dialog box, you know what I&#8217;m talking about: The web service is completely useless, and most of the time you already know what program you want to use to open the file. Luckily, it is easy to disable this dialog box with Default [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-default-programs-editor","category-documentation","category-dpe-cross-site","category-windows-tweaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}