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1. 

   Tomtom
   Member

   I downloaded "cool record edit" some time ago and it has taken over my documents which now seem to be saved by default to "Cool record edit documents". Worse, Word documents thus saved cannot be opened and I cannot uninstall Cool record etc because it doesn't appear in the list of programs available for uninstalling. Is the program a virus ?

   Posted 16 years ago #
2. 

   Robert
   StrayCat

   Tomtom,

   Hi

   Cool Record Edit Pro is an excellent program.

   You could try to restore your file associations this way:
   Right click on an existing Word document.
   Select open with,Choose program and choose 'Microsoft Word',check 'Always use...'. OK.

   Posted 16 years ago #
3. 

   Nightwalker
   Member

   You might think its a great program, but I don't!!

   I had to uninstall the durn thing manually (Cool Record Edit Pro)and it left tons of entries in my registry. It tried to take over EVERYTHING! I will NOT have a program like that on my machine. It has finally been wiped out, but yes, it was almost as bad as a virus.

   Posted 16 years ago #
4. 

   GrouchE
   Member

   It's D-U-M-B, ya BIG dummy!

   Posted 16 years ago #
5. 

   Messenger
   Member

   I had the same problem the other day after some one on the comment page suggested to try out for downloading movies and TV shows GRABOID.com. I checked out the website and for free you could d/l up to 4 gb per month which equaled about 3-5 movies a month and that the files had to be newer then 100 days. A paid subscription will get you more GB and access to older files. Sort of like a bitorrent interface. I was able to d/l a good quality copy of the new StarGate DVD.

   Now here was the big but part. When you download the interface to d/l the files it also came with its own video player by VideoLand. The player is ok, but it hijacked all my media files (avi,wmv, mpg, vob and even mp3, wav and QuickTime files.

   I'm one that prefers to use different players for different media files.

   What I had to do having XP was to open any folder and go to "tools" in the top menu and choose "folder options" then tab "file types" It will list every type file on your computer. You could change the "open with" option for you files here if you want to change whatever program you want or need to open the files with.

   I had tried to uninstall the VL player but the d/l interface will not work with out it.

   Posted 16 years ago #

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