Lost File Association

[Guest]

I have lost my File association in Vista for EXE's , any idea why and how to
get them back?

 

[Darrell Gorter[MSFT]]

Hello,
Can you boot to the DVD drive and choose the repair options?
There should be a system restore option present in WinRE and since this is
based on the info on the DVD rather than the hard drive
the affected change for associations with exe should not be present.
System Restore should resolve the issue.
You may want to mount the local registy hive while in WinRE prior to
running system restore
then record the values under:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\exefile
After running system restore.
Compare the values.
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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<I was installing Adobe 6.0
<2 people upgrading to Windows Media Player something.
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<> "Rick" wrote:
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<> > I have lost my File association in Vista for EXE's , any idea why and
how to
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<> 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.
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[modub]

test

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.

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]

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

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-Vista.html

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Regards,

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.