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Mark Webb-5

Sep 26, 2011; 5:53am

Windows 7 & SPSS

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Sorry in advance - may be a bit off subject - but can't get responses elsewhere.
Windows explorer does not give the .sps to a SPSS syntax file [even in Detailed option].
It pics up some extention like .xls, etc.
How do I configure the MS explorer to show ALL extentions

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Bruce Weaver

Sep 26, 2011; 12:41pm

Re: Windows 7 & SPSS

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From http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/security/trojanext.html:

In Windows 2000 (and more recent):
- select Start | Settings | Control Panels | Folder Options
- select the View tab
- check "show hidden files and folders"
- UNcheck "hide file extensions for known file types"
- Click OK to finish

Although on my XP-Professional system, it's Start | Control Panel, with no intervening "Settings".

Mark Webb-5 wrote

Sorry in advance - may be a bit off subject - but can't get responses
elsewhere.
Windows explorer does not give the .sps to a SPSS syntax file [even in
Detailed option].
It pics up some extention like .xls, etc.
How do I configure the MS explorer to show ALL extentions

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Mark Webb

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Cell +27 (72) 199 1000 [Poor reception]
Fax +27 (86) 551 3075
Skype tomarkwebb
Email [hidden email]
Client ftp http://targetlinkresearch.co.za/cftp/
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Barry

Sep 27, 2011; 1:04pm

Re: Windows 7 & SPSS

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In reply to this post by Mark Webb-5

This might work:

Right-click on a .sps file, get the 'open with' menu, choose SPSS,
and check the little box in the lower left hand corner which says
'always open with this program'. That will cause Windows to associate
.sps with SPSS. Do the same for data and output files.

The only problem is that that little check box doesn't always display.

Barry

Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:53:20 +0200
From: Mark Webb <[hidden email]>
Subject:

Sorry in advance - may be a bit off subject - but can't get responses
elsewhere. Windows explorer does not give the .sps to a SPSS syntax file [even in
Detailed option]. It pics up some extention like .xls, etc.
How do I configure the MS explorer to show ALL extentions

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