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- A long time ago I D/L’d PSP to view an image that MS Paint wouldn’t open. The trial period ran out, I didn’t want it bad enough to pay and that’s that. The problem was sometimes when I hit on a file that some other program should be able to open, PSP would start, then stop and inform me that the free trial period was over. One day I decided to uninstall PSP, but it didn’t help much: now the computer tells me that it can’t find PSP. - In the registry, in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, there’s at least the .psp folder with (default not set) and another folder named ShellNew. Inside ShellNew is an empty NullFile, a default not set and a command to PSP.exe/new. Can I safely delete this ShellView folder? I assume that I shouldn’t have any more references to PSP; if I do can I just delete them (in this case) or set them to (no default set)? - MC
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I’ve had a similar problem, but with a different program. I just kept rummaging through the registry looking for any key I could think of that directly pointed to the offending program, until I finally deleted the one that mattered. I can’t think of any other way to do it.
Of course, you should back up a copy of the registry just in case you get it wrong.
If you don’t want to hack at the registry, you could try to change the file association for the offending file type. For example, if it is a .jpg file type that is giving you trouble, open My computer and click on View|Folder Options. Go to the File Types tab and scroll down until you see PSP files or JPG or JPEG. From there you can remove the entry so that the file type doesn’t have a program associated with it or you can change the program associated with the file type by clicking edit.