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re: Cannot open any program or Icons in Control Panel
Friday, April 8, 2005 at 4:18 pm
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Posted by JmC (14166 messages posted)


This could be caused by Spyware or a Virus!

Download the LINKAssociate.zip 
file from this page. Unzip it and merge the LNK.reg file into the Registry. This 
will repair the associations.

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.lnk]
@="lnkfile"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.lnk\ShellNew]
"Command"="RunDLL32 AppWiz.Cpl,NewLinkHere %2"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.lnk\ShellEx]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.lnk\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@="{500202A0-731E-11d0-B829-00C04FD706EC}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile]
@="Create Shortcut"
"EditFlags"=hex:01,00,00,00
"IsShortcut"=""
"NeverShowExt"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\CLSID]
@="{00021401-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shellex]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shellex\IconHandler]
@="{00021401-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shellex\DropHandler]
@="{00021401-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\{00021401-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]
@="00"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\ChangeExtMenu]
@="{E56F97A7-7482-11CF-8735-444553540000}"

Written in response to:: Cannot open any program or Icons in Control Panel (E.Kiely: Thursday, April 7, 2005 at 1:16 pm)

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Cannot open any program or Icons in Control Panel (E.Kiely: Thu, Apr 7, 2005, 1:16 pm)

re: Cannot open any program or Icons in Control Panel (Elizabeth: Thu, Apr 7, 2005, 10:55 pm)

re: Cannot open any program or Icons in Control Panel (E.Kiely: Thu, Apr 7, 2005, 11:47 pm)

re: Cannot open any program or Icons in Control Panel (Dan: Fri, Apr 8, 2005, 7:25 am)

re: Cannot open any program or Icons in Control Panel (JmC: Fri, Apr 8, 2005, 4:18 pm)

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