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Posted by Jillian Fink
Jillian Fink
228 Points

Whenever I try to download a file for the lesson it opens as in word pad?

No zip drive opens up.

Christian Andersson
Christian Andersson
8,712 Points

You have to change your settings on your computer. I assume you're running Windows, so here is the fix for that:

  1. Go to Control Panel
  2. Open "Default Programs"
  3. Click "Associate a file type or protocol with a program"
  4. Find the file extension in the list for the file you're trying to download.
  5. Click "Change program" and select what program you want to open that filetype with.

After this, try downloading the file again.

Chris Grazioli
Chris Grazioli
31,225 Points

What other text editors do you have on your computer? The html, css, or php files are simply viewed and edited in a text editor which notepad certainly is, but it's certainly not a good one. Try downloading a copy of Sublime Text, or Notepad++, these programs are worlds better and simply installing them should be enough to make them the default for viewing these types of files, if not, you can follow the instructions left by Christian Andersson but you have to at least have these programs on your machine before any of that instruction is useful!

2 Answers

Aaron Goldhammer
Aaron Goldhammer
5,354 Points
Aaron Goldhammer
Aaron Goldhammer
5,354 Points

Definitely sounds like a file association issue. You either need to download a text editor or change the file association of the file whether that be .html or .css etc to open with the text editor.

The easy way of doing this (I'm assuming you're on Windows) right click on the file and select open with, then choose the text editor from the list. If it isn't there you'll have to add it by selecting the application. It will probably be in C:\program files\ [text editor.exe] then I'm pretty sure there is a box you can tick so that the file type will always open with this program.

Ry Belisle
Ry Belisle
5,780 Points
Ry Belisle
Ry Belisle
5,780 Points

Also, just to add to everyone else's points here, since this is a .zip file either before or after you've made changes to the Default Programs list, you should be able to right click the .zip archive itself and select "Extract All".

After doing so, using something like notepad with the extracted "normalize.css" file that the archive contains would be completely fine for the purpose of modifying the file.