[Coco] Re: Portal-9 bug report

[KnudsenMJ at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/18/04 10:56:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
mannslists at invigorated.org writes:

> Besides which, you shouldn't trust an icon to see what type of file it is in
>  Windoze in the first place. Check the extension always. Icons make things
>  easier to determine sometimes, but as in Dennis' example, not always.

Right!  I made the mistake of installing MS' Security Upgrades for Win98SE.  
It installed Windows Media Player 9.0 (or 10.0, or whatever).  Now, that 
player is MUCH better sounding on MP3 files than the old one.  But the installation 
also associated the same new icon with EVERY type of media file -- WAV, MP3, 
AVI, and even MIDI (which is sacred in my house, you don't mess with its 
icon!).

I managed to change the MIDI icon, and also the WAV icon for my digitized 
compositions, but all the others still look the same.  Not much use.

Oh BTW, I always enable file extensions to show also.  First time I do any 
work on my wife's PC, I turn them on (yes, they were disabled when the laptop 
came from the dude's comic book company).

And yes, she often gets "mystery" attachments from Mac users.  Ugh!  About 
all we can do is open them in Notepad or WordPad and delete enough of the square 
characters to make out the text.  
--Mike K.