Vista - Contacts open in NOTEPAD rather than Contacts

I used file explorer to go to my contacts directory and then selected a
contact and used "Open with" Notepad. While an intersting exercise I have
now screwed up my file associations so that when I double click a contact in
the contacts gadget - it opens in Notepad rather than Contacts.

Does anyone know where I can restore the .contacts file extension to open
with Contacts?

Right click on the .contacts file and choose Open With and then Browse to
c:\Program Files\Windows Mail\wab.exe and see if that works.

steve

"RobertLane" <RobertLane@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:42EAC7FD-DE2C-45FF-85AA-3A5B9E6149F5@microsoft.com...
>I used file explorer to go to my contacts directory and then selected a
> contact and used "Open with" Notepad. While an intersting exercise I have
> now screwed up my file associations so that when I double click a contact
> in
> the contacts gadget - it opens in Notepad rather than Contacts.
>
> Does anyone know where I can restore the .contacts file extension to open
> with Contacts?

I actually found the solution - Use Windows FIle Explorer and go to the USERs
Contacts folder, Right Click on any contact listed in the Contacts folder and
open PROPERTIES - the "Open with" setting is at the top of the General tab in
Properties.

Thanks for taking time to help me.

"Steve Cochran" wrote:

> Right click on the .contacts file and choose Open With and then Browse to
> c:\Program Files\Windows Mail\wab.exe and see if that works.
>
> steve
>
> "RobertLane" <RobertLane@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:42EAC7FD-DE2C-45FF-85AA-3A5B9E6149F5@microsoft.com...
> >I used file explorer to go to my contacts directory and then selected a
> > contact and used "Open with" Notepad. While an intersting exercise I have
> > now screwed up my file associations so that when I double click a contact
> > in
> > the contacts gadget - it opens in Notepad rather than Contacts.
> >
> > Does anyone know where I can restore the .contacts file extension to open
> > with Contacts?
>