Opening Text Documents with IE
 

I've just ran into a problem with my Internet Explorer. I use to be able to open text documents with Internet Explorer when I had Windows ME installed and they'd open just fine. Now I've installed Windows XP and when I go to click on a text document to open with Internet Explorer nothing happens. It seems like any program I try won't open the text documents I want to view. I tried opening them with Notepad and it'll open the document but will give me all the font & color detail and everything infront of the actual text because they are documents I've saved off AOL instant messages. When I use to open the documents on ME with Internet Explorer it'd open the file just as it was in the Instant Message window. Do I have to reset something in my XP Explorer to read these files ?? If anyone knows how to open them with IE or any other way that I don't know about please share, much thanks :thumbsup:

Try to right click on the file. From the popup menu choose "Open with".
If you don't see the program you want to use, select "Choose program"

Good luck

drag the text file to an open IE window, it'll open in IE