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Anonymous
12 years ago
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help with .sb files in win32 folder

Hello everyone, Long story short.. I was browsing around the directory and opened up an .sb file which then prompt me with the (open with) menu and well.. I accidentally opened it with notepad ...
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    Kuiriel
    12 years ago

    Hmm...

    If you have opened the file with notepad, unless you modified the file AND saved it, renamed it or changed its extension, you shouldn't be having this problem. You shouldn't need to unassociate the sb file with notepad. What happens if you move/delete the appropriate file and then choose to repair the BF4 install via Origin instead? I would advise attempting that.

    However, if you want to unassociate the file with notepad, you do it like so, with advice from here - http://www.howtogeek.com/171932/how-do-you-remove-a-default-file-association-in-windows-7/ - freely available via a google search.

    Start Menu > Run > Regedit > File > Export > All > Save a backup first!

    Then, and I quote the link:

    Find the file extension in question under this key in the registry:

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts

    Deleting the sub-key with the same name as the extension you want to un-associate will delete the default program association. You’ll have to kill and restart explorer.exe for this to take effect (via ctrl-shift-esc to task manager).

    You may also need to remove the same sub key from HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT as well.

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Kuiriel
Seasoned Veteran
12 years ago

Hmm...

If you have opened the file with notepad, unless you modified the file AND saved it, renamed it or changed its extension, you shouldn't be having this problem. You shouldn't need to unassociate the sb file with notepad. What happens if you move/delete the appropriate file and then choose to repair the BF4 install via Origin instead? I would advise attempting that.

However, if you want to unassociate the file with notepad, you do it like so, with advice from here - http://www.howtogeek.com/171932/how-do-you-remove-a-default-file-association-in-windows-7/ - freely available via a google search.

Start Menu > Run > Regedit > File > Export > All > Save a backup first!

Then, and I quote the link:

Find the file extension in question under this key in the registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts

Deleting the sub-key with the same name as the extension you want to un-associate will delete the default program association. You’ll have to kill and restart explorer.exe for this to take effect (via ctrl-shift-esc to task manager).

You may also need to remove the same sub key from HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT as well.

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Anonymous
12 years ago

All it took was the repair.. Well i feel like quite the moron! Sometimes I tend to let my mind believe things are more complicated than they actually are.

Thank you for the help, kuiriel.

                                                                          > much appreciated.

Also thank you for your input as well kstomp.

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