How to Cause FrontPage Express to Be the Customize Folder Editor

ID: Q176105

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 4.0, 4.01 for Windows 95
Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 4.0, 4.01 for Windows NT 4.0
Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5 for Windows 95
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5 for Windows 98
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5 for Windows NT 4.0

SUMMARY

This article describes how to cause Microsoft FrontPage Express to be the default editor when you customize a folder by creating a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) page to change the appearance of that folder.

MORE INFORMATION

When the Windows Desktop Update is installed on your computer, you can customize a folder by creating an HTML page to change the appearance of that folder. When you customize the appearance of a folder, Notepad is the default editor, even when FrontPage Express is installed on your computer. To cause FrontPage Express to be the default editor, follow these steps:

1. Double-click My Computer, and then click Folder Options on the View

   menu.

2. On the File Types tab, click HyperText Template in the Registered File

   Types box.

3. Click Edit, click New, and then type "edit" (without quotation marks)

   in the Action box.

4. Click Browse to locate the Fpxpress.exe file, and then click Open.

   NOTE: If you installed FrontPage Express in its default location, the
   Fpxpress.exe file is located in the following folder:

      Program Files\Microsoft FrontPage Express\Bin

5. Click OK, click Close, and then click Close.

For information about how to add or remove the Windows Desktop Update, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: How to Add or Remove Windows Desktop Update
   TITLE     : Q165695

Windows 95

Windows NT 4.0

For information about customizing folders, click Contents And Index on the Help menu in Internet Explorer, click the Index tab, type "customizing folders" (without quotation marks), click Display, click "Choosing Web or Classic style for folders," and then click "Make a folder look like a Web page."

Additional query words: 4.00 5.00

Keywords          : msiew95 msient msiew98 
Version           : WINDOWS:4.0,4.01,5.0,98
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbhowto

Last Reviewed: March 18, 1999