re: I cant click any .exe file or .bat. or any other program to start an application
Saturday, October 8, 2005 at 4:22 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Christian
(3 messages posted)
I did what you said. It still didnt fix the icons. I found out I can run programs
through the dos prompt. Thanks
On Friday, October 7, 2005 at 3:48 pm, jcw wrote:
>You said you can start Firefox, and I assume you can connect to the internet.
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So try this: go to this website:
>http://dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm
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and there follow the instructions to download and use these 3 zipped reg files:
>• Batch File Association Fix (Restore the default associations for BAT files)
>• EXE File Association Fix (Restore default association for EXE files)
>• LNK (Shortcut) File Association Fix (Restores Default Shortcut Behavior)
>If the troubled computer can't access the internet to effect the download, you'
>ll need to download the 3 files on another computer and copy them to removable media
>that you then can use to transfer the 3 files to the troubled computer.
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