All shortcuts become shortcuts to word.exe Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 6:41 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by rowan (1 messages posted) Hello all, Have recently cleaned a virus from a friends computer...sorry cannot remember the name of it but it came out around the middle of this year. From what I can tell i have eliminated the virus itself but one of the symptoms remains... When i create a shortcut to any executable it makes one for word.exe I can only assume that it has been 'hardcoded' into the registry.. can anyone tell me where in the registry i can find this key and what value on sntax i should put there to make it work as it did? thanx in advance rowan mitchell Responses to this message: re: All shortcuts become shortcuts to word.exe (Ms. Eagle: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 7:08 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] All shortcuts become shortcuts to word.exe (rowan: Wed, Oct 17, 2007, 6:41 pm) re: All shortcuts become shortcuts to word.exe (Ms. Eagle: Wed, Oct 17, 2007, 7:08 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum