IE has lost XML parsing ability - pls help!
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Guyz out there, I think I did something silly wrong thing. I was playing around with the list that comes up if you open Windows Explorer --> Tools --> Folder Options... --> File Types. This list is a list of which executables to associate with which file extensions, so that when we double click a file, the OS knows which EXE to call. By the way, I have XP Professional SP2. I deleted a few extensions from that list. One of the things I deleted was XML, and it was associated with Altova XML Spy. I always hated that when I double click an XML file, Altova would open up, blatantly advertising what its paid version offers before I can see my XML file. I had in the past tried to re-associate the XML extension with IE, but somehow Altova always regains it back. So among others, I went ahead and deleted the XML extension too. I have also deleted tons of other extensions. Result: After that if I open an XML file with IE, IE does not "parse" it. It shows just as Notepad would :^) Can you please help me to regain my IE-XML tie up back? Thanks a lot for your time and patience! Koushik Biswas
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Guyz out there, I think I did something silly wrong thing. I was playing around with the list that comes up if you open Windows Explorer --> Tools --> Folder Options... --> File Types. This list is a list of which executables to associate with which file extensions, so that when we double click a file, the OS knows which EXE to call. By the way, I have XP Professional SP2. I deleted a few extensions from that list. One of the things I deleted was XML, and it was associated with Altova XML Spy. I always hated that when I double click an XML file, Altova would open up, blatantly advertising what its paid version offers before I can see my XML file. I had in the past tried to re-associate the XML extension with IE, but somehow Altova always regains it back. So among others, I went ahead and deleted the XML extension too. I have also deleted tons of other extensions. Result: After that if I open an XML file with IE, IE does not "parse" it. It shows just as Notepad would :^) Can you please help me to regain my IE-XML tie up back? Thanks a lot for your time and patience! Koushik Biswas
If you have backup your system state, then you could restore it to the previous state and solve your problem. In my opinion, you should try to use System File Check[^] feature which is available by default in windows to scan and check if any file type is missing or error.
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Guyz out there, I think I did something silly wrong thing. I was playing around with the list that comes up if you open Windows Explorer --> Tools --> Folder Options... --> File Types. This list is a list of which executables to associate with which file extensions, so that when we double click a file, the OS knows which EXE to call. By the way, I have XP Professional SP2. I deleted a few extensions from that list. One of the things I deleted was XML, and it was associated with Altova XML Spy. I always hated that when I double click an XML file, Altova would open up, blatantly advertising what its paid version offers before I can see my XML file. I had in the past tried to re-associate the XML extension with IE, but somehow Altova always regains it back. So among others, I went ahead and deleted the XML extension too. I have also deleted tons of other extensions. Result: After that if I open an XML file with IE, IE does not "parse" it. It shows just as Notepad would :^) Can you please help me to regain my IE-XML tie up back? Thanks a lot for your time and patience! Koushik Biswas
Here's the XML association info from my HKCR, save this as a .reg file and import it. Good luck.
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.xml]
"PerceivedType"="text"
@="xmlfile"
"Content Type"="text/xml"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.xml\PersistentHandler]
@="{5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile]
@="XML Document"
"EditFlags"=dword:00010000
"FriendlyTypeName"=hex(2):40,25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,53,79,73,\
74,65,6d,33,32,5c,6d,73,78,6d,6c,33,72,2e,64,6c,6c,2c,2d,31,00[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile\BrowseInPlace]
@=""[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile\CLSID]
@="{48123bc4-99d9-11d1-a6b3-00c04fd91555}"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile\DefaultIcon]
@=hex(2):25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,53,79,73,74,65,6d,33,32,5c,6d,\
73,78,6d,6c,33,2e,64,6c,6c,2c,30,00[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile\shell]
@="Open"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile\shell\Open]
@=""[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile\shell\Open\command]
@=hex(2):22,43,3a,5c,50,72,6f,67,72,61,6d,20,46,69,6c,65,73,5c,49,6e,74,65,72,\
6e,65,74,20,45,78,70,6c,6f,72,65,72,5c,69,65,78,70,6c,6f,72,65,2e,65,78,65,\
22,20,2d,6e,6f,68,6f,6d,65,00[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile\shell\Open\ddeexec]
@="\"file:%1\",,-1,,,,,"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile\shell\Open\ddeexec\application]
@="IExplore"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile\shell\Open\ddeexec\topic]
@="WWW_OpenURL"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{48123bc4-99d9-11d1-a6b3-00c04fd91555}]
@="XML Document"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{48123bc4-99d9-11d1-a6b3-00c04fd91555}\BrowseInPlace]
@=""[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{48123bc4-99d9-11d1-a6b3-00c04fd91555}\DefaultIcon]
@=hex(2):25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,53,79,73,74,65,6d,33,32,5c,6d,\
73,78,6d,6c,33,2e,64,6c,6c,2c,30,00[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{48123bc4-99d9-11d1-a6b3-00c04fd91555}\InProcServer32]
@=hex(2):25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,53,79,73,74,65,6d,33,32,5c,6d,\
73,78,6d,6c,33,2e,64,6c,6c,00
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{48123bc4-99d9-11d1-a6b3-00c04fd91555}\MiscStatus]
@="2228625"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{48123bc4-99d9-11d1-a6b3-00c04fd91555}\PersistentHandler]
@="{5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{48123bc4-99d9-11d1-a6b3-00c04fd91555}\ProgID]
@="xmlfile"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{48123bc4-99d9-11d1-a6b3-00c04fd91555}\Version]
@="1.0"--Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | PimpFish | CP Se
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Here's the XML association info from my HKCR, save this as a .reg file and import it. Good luck.
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.xml]
"PerceivedType"="text"
@="xmlfile"
"Content Type"="text/xml"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.xml\PersistentHandler]
@="{5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile]
@="XML Document"
"EditFlags"=dword:00010000
"FriendlyTypeName"=hex(2):40,25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,53,79,73,\
74,65,6d,33,32,5c,6d,73,78,6d,6c,33,72,2e,64,6c,6c,2c,2d,31,00[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile\BrowseInPlace]
@=""[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile\CLSID]
@="{48123bc4-99d9-11d1-a6b3-00c04fd91555}"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile\DefaultIcon]
@=hex(2):25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,53,79,73,74,65,6d,33,32,5c,6d,\
73,78,6d,6c,33,2e,64,6c,6c,2c,30,00[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile\shell]
@="Open"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile\shell\Open]
@=""[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile\shell\Open\command]
@=hex(2):22,43,3a,5c,50,72,6f,67,72,61,6d,20,46,69,6c,65,73,5c,49,6e,74,65,72,\
6e,65,74,20,45,78,70,6c,6f,72,65,72,5c,69,65,78,70,6c,6f,72,65,2e,65,78,65,\
22,20,2d,6e,6f,68,6f,6d,65,00[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile\shell\Open\ddeexec]
@="\"file:%1\",,-1,,,,,"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile\shell\Open\ddeexec\application]
@="IExplore"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile\shell\Open\ddeexec\topic]
@="WWW_OpenURL"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{48123bc4-99d9-11d1-a6b3-00c04fd91555}]
@="XML Document"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{48123bc4-99d9-11d1-a6b3-00c04fd91555}\BrowseInPlace]
@=""[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{48123bc4-99d9-11d1-a6b3-00c04fd91555}\DefaultIcon]
@=hex(2):25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,53,79,73,74,65,6d,33,32,5c,6d,\
73,78,6d,6c,33,2e,64,6c,6c,2c,30,00[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{48123bc4-99d9-11d1-a6b3-00c04fd91555}\InProcServer32]
@=hex(2):25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,53,79,73,74,65,6d,33,32,5c,6d,\
73,78,6d,6c,33,2e,64,6c,6c,00
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{48123bc4-99d9-11d1-a6b3-00c04fd91555}\MiscStatus]
@="2228625"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{48123bc4-99d9-11d1-a6b3-00c04fd91555}\PersistentHandler]
@="{5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{48123bc4-99d9-11d1-a6b3-00c04fd91555}\ProgID]
@="xmlfile"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{48123bc4-99d9-11d1-a6b3-00c04fd91555}\Version]
@="1.0"--Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | PimpFish | CP Se
Thanks Mike for the advice. Unfortunately it did not help :( Koushik Biswas
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Guyz out there, I think I did something silly wrong thing. I was playing around with the list that comes up if you open Windows Explorer --> Tools --> Folder Options... --> File Types. This list is a list of which executables to associate with which file extensions, so that when we double click a file, the OS knows which EXE to call. By the way, I have XP Professional SP2. I deleted a few extensions from that list. One of the things I deleted was XML, and it was associated with Altova XML Spy. I always hated that when I double click an XML file, Altova would open up, blatantly advertising what its paid version offers before I can see my XML file. I had in the past tried to re-associate the XML extension with IE, but somehow Altova always regains it back. So among others, I went ahead and deleted the XML extension too. I have also deleted tons of other extensions. Result: After that if I open an XML file with IE, IE does not "parse" it. It shows just as Notepad would :^) Can you please help me to regain my IE-XML tie up back? Thanks a lot for your time and patience! Koushik Biswas
Try to re-register the last msxml library that is in your system. This libraries are in the C:\windows\sytem32 folder. I'm not sure this is your problem because unregistered dlls cause more collateral damages but you can try. Execute from command line this, REGSVR32 "C:\windows\system32\MSXML4.DLL" , the number could be different, depends on the software you have installed.