Infopath Not Default XML Handler?

[Steve]

Hello,

Everytime I open InfoPath 2003 on numerous systems, I get a message
about the program not being the default application for XML documents.
If I check to make it the default (which is what I need), it runs a
"Detect & Repair" which seems to complete fine.

The next time I open InfoPath, it does it again...

I went into File Types, and manually selected InfoPath for XML
Document extensions, but it does it anyhow. The extension was
registered to "XML Editor" previously.

Any thoughts?

 

[Brian Teutsch [MSFT]]

Is the user account that you are running InfoPath under granted admin
privaleges? Setting the XML file handler is simple, but requires register
changes that affect system resources. It might be something else, but wanted
to check this.

Brian

 

[Steve]

Brian,

Yes, the account has admin rights...

Steve

 

[Brian Teutsch [MSFT]]

After running detect and repair, probably before you exit InfoPath, can you
check the following registry key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile

It should have some critical keys under it:
CLSID
DefaultIcon
shell\edit
shell\open
ShellEx\IconHandler

Is it at all possible that something is changing the .xml extension to not
point at xmlfile as the default handler? Perhaps another application that
likes XML?

Brian