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Anakin0184 - 02 Jul 2003 19:07 GMT

When I start up Windows 95 on my laptop, I can no longer
click on programs to open them up. Such things as System
check or aol tray u know the thigns like that. not even
winamp or suc. My problem is that anything thats
executable will not execute. Can anyone please help me?

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Jeff Richards - 03 Jul 2003 02:48 GMT

What happens when you try? Are the items missing, or can you find them and
click on them, but they don't work? If they don't work, what happens? is
there an error message? If you find the EXE file that actually starts the
application, can you double-click that file and does the application start?
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP W95/W98

> When I start up Windows 95 on my laptop, I can no longer
> click on programs to open them up. Such things as System
> check or aol tray u know the thigns like that. not even
> winamp or suc. My problem is that anything thats
> executable will not execute. Can anyone please help me?

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Ben Myers - 04 Jul 2003 03:08 GMT

Copy and paste the following text to Notepad and save it
to a floppy as "a:\exefix.reg". Start the laptop, insert the
floppy, click "Start", "Run", then type "a:\exefix.reg" into
the "Open" box and click "OK".

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command]
@="\"%1\" %*"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\exefile\shell\open\command]
@="\"%1\" %*" ;
[End]

Ben

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