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re: Cannot open any program or Icons in Control Panel
Thursday, April 7, 2005 at 11:47 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by E.Kiely
(27 messages posted)
Thanks for the reply
I'll try that
Regards
Ekiely
On Thursday, April 7, 2005 at 10:55 pm, Elizabeth wrote:
>It sounds like your file associations are completely messed up. Thats basically
>what is in the view/folder options/file types part of explorer where you set what
>program opens certain types of files.
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>You could fix them all manually ... a registry restore should fix it as well.
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>The control panel part concerns me however because I simply did not think you could
>change the association for those.
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>The registry restore should be treated as a last resort .. and windows only keeps
>a limited number of copies .. so unless you decide you want to do the restore, I
>would leave the computer off unless someone posts another fix.
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>To do the registry restore you need be in dos mode (f8 at system start, command
prompt
>option) and type scanreg /restore
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