How To: Dissociate a saved html file from it's linked folder on Windows
1#howto #windows11 #regedit
Ever tried saving a webpage and couldn't get the file dissociated from the folder? Ever found it more annoying than useful? There used to be an option to disable it somewhere in the menus, but there doesn't seem to be one on Windows 11 anymore, so you're stuck with dealing with this annoying behavior.
Luckily we can edit the windows registry and tell it to ignore file folder associations. Here is how:
1) Launch regedit
2) go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
3) create a new DWORD Value, name it NoFileFolderConnection and give it a value of 1.
And now windows explorer ignores the file folder connections! Hooray!
If you ever want to revert the configuration you can either change NoFileFolderConnection's value to 0 or just delete NoFileFolderConnection DWORD from the registry.
Please be careful when editing / deleting things from windows registry, it can severily damage your computer configuration if you don't know what you're doing.
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