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Originally Posted by ascherjim
A curious consequence of installing this Kindle for PC application on your PC is that I have found that the icons for all my non-DRM Mobipocket titles have been changed to the Amazon Kindle icon, and are now read by the new Kindle for PC reader rather than the Mobipocket reader when opened on the PC for reading. This is hopefully only a benign feature.
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This sounds to me like the common 'extension grabbing' done by many programs in Windows. Rather than looking inside a file to see what it contains (which would be sensible, hence not the MS way) Windows looks at the extensions. It maintains a list of extensions and associates each with the default program that opens that 'type' of file. It sounds to me like Kindle, because it *can* read Mobi files, has grabbed that association, listing itself as the default program for those files.
I don't know if Mobi has an option to reset the extensions back to itself. If not, go into Tools, Folder Options, File Types. Find the extensions you want to change & edit them. You'll get a list of programs and can select Mobi from that list. That won't change your ability to open them in Kindle, when you want to, but it'll stop Kindle from opening them by default. (Note: I haven't yet looked at Kindle. There are a few programs that try to 'grab back' the extensions every time you run them. Hopefully Kindle doesn't do that.)