[Monkey Face]

I have a document in my “old hard drive” file that says “MHTML Document,” and I can’t open it without IE trying to interfere. However, IE is no longer functioning which means I can’t open the document.

Which, under normal circumstances, wouldn’t be TOO bad, but this is the CFIDS Symptoms document, and I need access to it. I don’t know how it got changed to MHTML, but I need to get that undone. Period.

What can I do? *help*

[Covenantor]

Try right clicking document name and select open with Word processing program, Word Pad use to work.

Quick and dirty way is to open it as text file which will have html tag clutter....if you need it NOW, you can have it NOW.

[ArGee]

You have a couple of options. For a quick peek at what's in there, right click on it and choose "Open With Notepad." (or the option of your choice) If there isn't a good option there pick "Open With..." and then select Chrome or some other program that might work.

If you think it was set to the wrong type (It's what IE saves but you might not have had any rich content in it) you have to set your file viewing options (usually under View or Settings in your file explorer) to show you file extensions. Then right-click and rename. Change MHTML to HTML.

[NoCmpromiz]

file that says “MHTML Document,” and I can’t open it without IE trying to interfere. ...I don’t know how it got changed to MHTML..

Since you came up with a file format I never heard of, I did some research, and as I suspected it's one of those Microsoft inventions that is used if you save a web page from IE, which is why IE wants to play with it..

So we start with this tidbit:

A few words about MHTML files

MHTML files are nothing more than web page archives that contain external links, such as images, animations, audio files, but also its HTML 
source code. These are integrated in a single file that acts just like an archive.

The incompatibility issue occurs because this file type was created only for Internet Explorer. Consequently, it is more than likely that other 
browsers don't support it. 

And then there's this - which is probably more info than you ever wanted to know about a 'special' M$ file type:

MHTML document (MIME)

MHTML (short for MIME HTML) is a file extension for a Web page archive file format as saved by Internet Explorer. The archived Web page is 
an MHTML document. MHTML saves the Web page content and incorporates external resources, such as images, applets, Flash animations and so on, 
into HTML documents.

In Internet Explorer, when you save a Web page as a Web archive, the page is saved as an MHTML file. Any relative links in the HTML (those 
that don’t include all information about the location of the content but assume all content is in a directory on the host server) will be 
remapped so the content can be located.

MHT files open in Internet Explorer or, with an add-on, in Firefox and some other browsers. MHTML Converter is one program that converts 
MHTML files to regular HTML.

Because MHTML files can be infected, they should always be scanned before opening.

MHTML files may also go by the extension MHT.

That repository of all the world's knowledge, Wikipedia says this about MHTML...

And, if all else fails and you can't get it to open, there's this freeware program on softpedia that will convert it back to normal HTML that should open on any browser or wordpad or whatever...

MHTML Converter

Of course, other than what the reviews say, I have no knowledge or experience with this software..

I would recommend also that if you get it to display, see if you can re-save it as something more standard like a PDF or even RTF which even though it's another M$ invention can be opened by more things than just IE... Another option if all else fails is to see if you can email the file to someone who could open it and also convert it to a PDF for you to eliminate the problem in the future..