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can't open any .exe, this fixed my win2k
Thursday, September 23, 2004 at 10:00 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by KDB
(1 messages posted)
My win2k had this problem. I was trying to work on something else, which led me
to open the "Tools -> Folder Options" under the file browser. Then I selected "File
Types" and "new" and added 'exe'. Then I deleted the file type 'exe', that was a
Bad move. I knew that I had broken it myself and it wasn't a virus or something
like that.
Well, then I couldn't open any exe files from anywhere, even from start->run. I
couldn't open regedit, an editor, or even ie.
I got on another similar computer, opened regedit and some tools I needed, then saved
the registry, and then broke that one too the same way I did on the first one. Then
I exported the registry again from regedit and compared them. I found that the key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.exe was missing altogether. So I created it
and gave the default value 'exefile' which is the way it was before I removed the
key. Then everything worked again.
On the first machine that was broken, I couldn't run regedit, so I right clicked
a file on the desktop and selected open-with notepad. This gave me an editor, then
I deleted the contents and put regedit.exe in the file and saved it as regedit.bat
back onto the desktop. When I clicked on it, it ran regedit for me. Then I added
the key and value above, and fixed that computer also.
On Tuesday, August 14, 2001 at 10:59 pm, Ben wrote:
>No mater what i open, (.exe files) the program not found box comes up and tells
me
>that windows can't find cnrwghlcdfjse.exe
>i refered to your section on the problem about openeing up .exe files and downloaded
>the 07-102 patch but it did not work.
>You are right that i can open other files such as .doc but not direct .exe files
>Please help as i don't know what to do.
>I have tried everything to my knowledge but i have to refer to those who know what
>they are doing.
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