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Notepad and wordpad will both read *.ini files or in fact any ASCII formated file. I also have many ASCII files with *.dat and other private extensions.
For editing purposes I find wordpad better as it inserts a carriage return and linefeed to text files generated by linux editors and similar that use another non printable character to indicate the line feed/CR (eg. </b>).
I open "tools" on the menu bar and select "folder options", "file types".
I then find the .ini, .dat, .txt and any other extensions I like to edit in wordpad and set the "open with" to wordpad.
Thereafter whenever I click on these file formats they open in wordpad and save correctly without any bother with extensions.
Barry
PS With windows 7 this file association needs to be done through the control panel.
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