Again Contributors and license files do not open

[paulber19]

Steps to reproduce:

Actual behavior:

1 - Open NVDA menu;
2 - Go to Help submenu;
3 - Choose Contributors or license and press Enter

Neither file opens.
An error is logged in the nvda log:
OSError: [WinError -2147221003] Application introuvable: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\NVDA\documentation\contributors.txt'

or:
OSError: [WinError -2147221003] Application introuvable: 'E:\documents\Paulo\temp\nvda 2024.4\documentation\contributors.txt'

This is similar to issue #14725 which only occurred under W11 and which, in principle, has been fixed.
Now this happens under W10 and the correction does not work.
This problem appeared very recently under W10.

Expected behavior:

The contributors.txt or license file should be open in default editor, such notepad.ex

NVDA logs, crash dumps and other attachments:

System configuration

NVDA installed/portable/running from source:

NVDA installed and portable.

NVDA version:

NVDA 2024.4.1 installed and portable.

Windows version:

Windows 10 22H2 (10.0.19045) workstation AMD64

Name and version of other software in use when reproducing the issue:

None

Other information about your system:

Other questions

Does the issue still occur after restarting your computer?

Yes

Have you tried any other versions of NVDA? If so, please report their behaviors.

NVDA portable version alpha-34782,82fefa5a x86

If NVDA add-ons are disabled, is your problem still occurring?

Yes

Does the issue still occur after you run the COM Registration Fixing Tool in NVDA's tools menu?

No tested

[SaschaCowley]

We plan to remove contributors.txt (#16922), and convert copying.txt to HTML.