Hi @Santt0sh,
Just in case you haven't seen it: The recent discussion Double clicking .sas file opens 9.4 but not the file contains a link to a relevant SAS "Problem Note" as well as suggestions on how you can quickly open .sas files without the risk of submitting code accidentally.
I suspect that want you are talking about is browsing to a SAS program file in Windows Explorer and double clicking it.
So it appears that on your machine that action is mapped to running the program instead of editing the program.
Do you have a local SAS admin that is responsible for installing SAS on your machine? If so ask them how to change the default action. Otherwise you might need to figure out how to do that yourself using Windows, but that is getting harder as Windows keeps changing how it works.
It might just be easier to change your behavior. On my machine when I right click on a .SAS file this menu pop-ups up. As you can see the OPEN choice is set as the default action, but there are other actions I could pick.
Hi @Santt0sh,
Just in case you haven't seen it: The recent discussion Double clicking .sas file opens 9.4 but not the file contains a link to a relevant SAS "Problem Note" as well as suggestions on how you can quickly open .sas files without the risk of submitting code accidentally.
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