How to make XP skip the prompt to find a program to open files

When you try to open a file for which XP doesn't have a program association, you normally get a dialog box asking you if you want to search online for the appropriate program to open it. This registry tweak will disable that prompt and display the Open With dialog box instead.

1. Open your registry editor.
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ system
3. Right click an empty space in the right details pane and click New.
4. Select DWORD value.
5. Name the new DWORD value NoInternetOpenWith
6. Double click the value and set the value data field to 1
7. Close the registry editor

You may need to reboot for the change to take effect.