Associating Notation Composer with .MID, .KAR, and .NOT Files |
You can set up Windows to always use Composer to open a MIDI (.mid) or Karaoke (.kar) file when you open it from Windows Explorer, or download it using Internet Explorertm or another browser. When you first installed Composer, you were asked whether you wanted to "associate" Composer with .mid and .kar files. Associate is the term that Windows uses to say that a specified program is used to open files with a certain file name extension, such as .mid or .kar. If you did not request Composer to be associated with .mid and .kar files when you ran the Composer setup program, you can easily instruct it to be associated, as described below. On the other hand, if you did request Composer to be associated with .mid and .kar files, but change your mind, you can remove the association. To associate Composer with MIDI (.mid) and Karaoke (.kar) files:
Note: On Windows Vista and Windows 7, the above dialog box is replaced with a different set of instructions.
To remove the association of Composer with MIDI (.mid) and Karaoke (.kar) files:
Some versions of Windows do not automatically ask you to choose the new program to associate with the file types but, instead, just tell you that no program is currently associated with the .mid or .kar file extension. In this case, follow the next procedure below. To manually associate another program with MIDI (.mid) and Karaoke (.kar) files: Note: On Windows Vista and Windows 7, choose the Associate Composer With .MID Files command in the Setup menu, and follow the instructions there, The instructions below use MIDI files as the example, but they apply equally to Karaoke files.
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