Attachments not opening in the appropriate program

I can't get my Yahoo email attachments to open properly with Windows Vista. I received an attachment that I downloaded on my computer and I had to hit 'Open with' and open it with Notepad for me to see. After that, all my eamil accessories open with laptop no matter if they wee images or text. I right click on some other attachments downloaded to try to open them with their corresponding program and now nothing opens at all. Even the files that need to open up in the laptop just came as symbols, not the words. Any ideas on how to reset these default values?

Thank you

Hello rsdan84,

Go to start, programs by default.
You can then go to set the default program and access.
Along the top of the page, you will see the name, the Description and current by default.
If you click Default Current, there will be applications in alphabetical order.
Highlight Notepad and you will see what programs the notebook opens by default.
. CSS, .dic, .exc, .inf, .ini, .log and .txt to name a few.

If you want to change the program that opens this particular extension, click on change program button and you can browse to select the program you choose.

Let us know if that helps.

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