The people I'm supporting are typically running SAS 9.2 under Windows 7, both 64 and 32 bit Prior to SAS being bundled with Enterprise Guide, a user could double click on a .sas file the file would open and not execute in SAS. Now that installations come with Enterprise Guide when a user double clicks on a .sas file the file opens in EG. I have been asked how one can open the file in SAS (not EG) with a double click. Personally I right click on the .sas file and choose 'open with SAS 9.2' from the context menu. My users, being older academics, reject my simple solution. I have tried re-associating the .sas type file to sas.exe instead of EG and also uninstalling EG. Both of these resulted in a double click executing the .sas file and not just opening it. This sounds like a Windows thing and I think it is, but I think it's a registry issue. If anyone has any good ideas I would appreciate the help. Thanks.
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