How to Cause FrontPage Express to Be the Customize Folder Editor

This article describes how to cause Microsoft FrontPage Express to be the default editor when you customize a folder by creating a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) page to change the appearance of that folder.

When the Windows Desktop Update is installed on your computer, you can customize a folder by creating an HTML page to change the appearance of that folder. When you customize the appearance of a folder, Notepad is the default editor, even when FrontPage Express is installed on your computer. To cause FrontPage Express to be the default editor, follow these steps:

1. Double-click My Computer, and then click Folder Options on the View menu.
2. On the File Types tab, click HyperText Template in the Registered File Types box.
3. Click Edit, click New, and then type "edit" (without quotation marks) in the Action box.
4. Click Browse to locate the Fpxpress.exe file, and then click Open.
   
   NOTE: If you installed FrontPage Express in its default location, the Fpxpress.exe file is located in the following folder:
   Program Files\Microsoft FrontPage Express\Bin
5. Click OK, click Close, and then click Close.

For information about how to add or remove the Windows Desktop Update, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Windows 95

For information about customizing folders, click Contents And Index on the Help menu in Internet Explorer, click the Index tab, type customizing folders, and then click Display.

Windows NT 4.0

For information about customizing folders, click Contents And Index on the Help menu in Internet Explorer, click the Index tab, type customizing folders, click Display, click "Choosing Web or Classic style for folders," and then click "Make a folder look like a Web page."