How to change a Dat file to normal?

[Coolboy951]

Hey guys so i was trying to uncap my FPS in Battle for Middle Earth 2 and i opend the game.dat file with notepad and now it wont change back and i cant play it online, any help?

 

[boosted1g]

When you edit a .dat, .cmd. .bat, ini. etc file in notepad, you have to save it as that extension otherwise it will get rewritten as a .txt file.

I like textpad for any configuration file editing.

 

[Coolboy951]

When you edit a .dat, .cmd. .bat, ini. etc file in notepad, you have to save it as that extension otherwise it will get rewritten as a .txt file.

I like textpad for any configuration file editing.

well im using notepad to save it but it wont change from wordpad to normal .dat

 

[boosted1g]

File - Save As - under type change it from text file to "all files" then save it as the .dat.

You also cant have the program open when changing it as it might be write protected

 

[Coolboy951]

File - Save As - under type change it from text file to "all files" then save it as the .dat.

You also cant have the program open when changing it as it might be write protected

I did that it saved as a dat file but what im trying to say is that when i save it, it still has the notepad icon and not the paper icon

 

[boosted1g]

That is just because you probably selected notepad to be the default program to open the file.


I could make a word document have the IE icon if I selected it to be the default program to open it.

 

[Coolboy951]

That is just because you probably selected notepad to be the default program to open the file.


I could make a word document have the IE icon if I selected it to be the default program to open it.

how can i get rid of that?