IE+won't+open+Log+files

Problem:
When clicking a link in Internet Explorer with the .log extension the browser will prompt you to download the file rather than display the contents within the web browser itself, or the file will open but it will be in Notepad instead of Internet Explorer. The user wanted to view .log files directly in the Internet Explorer browser.

Solution:
This issue had to be solved by doing the following two things:

Set windows to open .log files using Internet Explorer by default
 * 1) Open **My Computer**
 * 2) Click the **Tools** menu and select **Folder Options**
 * 3) Choose the **File Types** tab
 * 4) Scroll down the list of file types in the **Registered File Types...** menu until you see the **LOG** file type
 * 5) Select the **LOG** file type and choose **Change**
 * 6) Select **Internet Explorer** from the list and click **OK**

The problem may be solved at this point but for some applications that work inside of Internet Explorer an additional registry edit must be made.

> **Name=Content Type** > **Data=text/plain**
 * 1) open **regedit**
 * 2) locate the key **HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.log**
 * 3) Add a new String Value with

This will have to be done on all PCs that are used to view the log files.

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