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Windows Forum / Windows Vista / General Topics / May 2008Lost File Association
I have lost my File association in Vista for EXE's , any idea why and how to get them back? > I have lost my File association in Vista for EXE's , any idea why and how to > get them back? I have also had this problem and with no advanced tab in the Set Associations section of the Control Panel, I still have exe's associated with random programs. Call me crazy but as i am looking thru the newsgroup here this is the 6th thread about this same issue. The fact being that the file association for all EXE file types has been changed. Known. I was installing Adobe 6.0 2 people upgrading to Windows Media Player something. Another guy installing Adobe 6.0. And another guy with an association problem so bad that the system will not even get thru boot. Anyone that can shed some light on the topic BESIDES SYSTEM RESTORE(which is impossible if all your exe's are no longer associated with basic.) then lets hear it. > > I have lost my File association in Vista for EXE's , any idea why and how to > > get them back? > > I have also had this problem and with no advanced tab in the Set > Associations section of the Control Panel, I still have exe's associated with > random programs. Hello, I seem to be having the same problem as many of us are. All my files only open with VLC media player. The first time this was not a problem, and I uninstalled it and everything went back to normal. I reinstalled it from a different source, thinking it was a virus or something, but the problem restarted, and everything still opened with VLC. I tryed to uninstall it, it worked, but all my programs became blank notes, or simply do not open. When i click on them, it asks me what program I want to associate it with. I can't do anything, run setups at all. I can't even run a script or reg editor. Help me out please! BasBas.  SignatureBasBas > Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > BasBas. Try this to restore your exe file association. Copy and paste this into a blank text file. Save the text file and change the extension from TXT to REG , right-click and select ' Merge'. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.EXE] @="exefile" "Content Type"="application/x-msdownload" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.EXE\PersistentHandler] @="{098f2470-bae0-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile] @="Application" "EditFlags"=hex:38,07,00,00 "FriendlyTypeName"=hex(2):40,00,25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,\ 00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,\ 32,00,5c,00,73,00,68,00,65,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,\ 00,2c,00,2d,00,31,00,30,00,31,00,35,00,36,00,00,00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\DefaultIcon] @="%1" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open] "EditFlags"=hex:00,00,00,00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command] @="\"%1\" %*" "IsolatedCommand"="\"%1\" %*" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\runas] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\runas\command] @="\"%1\" %*" "IsolatedCommand"="\"%1\" %*" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex\DropHandler] @="{86C86720-42A0-1069-A2E8-08002B30309D}" [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.exe\UserChoice] test >> Hello, >> [quoted text clipped - 59 lines] > > [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.exe\UserChoice] Run the .exe association fix from here. File association fixes for Windows Vista: http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/105/1/File-association-fixes-for-Windows-V ista.html SignatureRegards, Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User] The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog Windows® Troubleshooting: http://www.winhelponline.com Hello, I seem to be having the same problem as many of us are. All my files only open with VLC media player. The first time this was not a problem, and I uninstalled it and everything went back to normal. I reinstalled it from a different source, thinking it was a virus or something, but the problem restarted, and everything still opened with VLC. I tryed to uninstall it, it worked, but all my programs became blank notes, or simply do not open. When i click on them, it asks me what program I want to associate it with. I can't do anything, run setups at all. I can't even run a script or reg editor. Help me out please! BasBas. SignatureBasBas |
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