When ever I try to view somebody's attached mq4 file, I get a message from Windows telling me that it can not find the program to open the file. What am I doing wrong?
stick it in the mt4 experts folder or experts\indicators folder (depending on whether it is an expert or an indicator) and restart MT4.
then you can select it from expert advisors or custom indicators in the Navigator window of MT4.
if you want to view it then you can open them from there into the MetaEditor by choosing modify.
another alternative is to just open the file use the MetaEditor
and if you want it opened by default by the MetaEditor then associate it with MetaEditor the way you would associate any file in windows with a program (right click the file and figure it out from there, it is easy)
if you go the metaeditor route then when you compile it from metaeditor, it should show up in MT4 without requiring a restart. All the restart thing does is compile all mq4 files it finds in those special folders upon startup.
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