Shoutbox

dat_geezer,

I'm going to try to explain a bit more what has happend....

If you open a file in Notepad (start notepad then go to the file menu), the file will be read as text. That goes for any file you open in notepad (even .exe files, etc)...

Now, when you open a file in Windows Explorer by double clicking it, Windows checks his settings to see if there is a program associated to that file extension. For .txt files this can be notepad for example. For .doc files this is Word, etc... For encrypted logfiles from Plus! (.ple) this is Messenger Plus!, not notepad, Word or anything else...

So what happens (or at least should happen) when you double click a .ple file is that Windows starts up Messenger Plus! with that file. Then Messenger Plus! decrypts it to a temporary file and then Messenger Plus! starts notepad with that temporary file.

Onlmy Messenger Plus! knows that it is an ecrypted file. You wont be able to load the .ple in any other program (even msn) because it doesn't know how to handle the file...

What went wrong with you is that the association between the .ple file and Messenger Plus! got deleted. To fix it do as Lopardo suggested: reinstall Plus!...