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  May 12 2008, 12:25 AM
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New Member  Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 6-November 06 Member No.: 94,077  |
 I am running on Desktop, Win XP Professional, SP3 Ver:5.1.2600.5512 Till yesterday this option worked fine, today only i noticed that if I Right click on any file type (e.g. MP3, DLL), Open with -> Choose Program.. Opens Notepad automatically  Does not allow me to choose a program as it used to before, I am using SP3 since two weeks now, but only today, this weird selection started happening. Is it that i am hacked???  I did use nlite to generate an .iso for backup purposes, never used this .iso file. In this nlite I opted Tweaks Section -> General Tab -> Explorer -> Associate additional file types with notepad (explanation - Open LST, CFG and NFO files by default). I do not think it has any significance, but wanted to mention anything i did related to notepad association.  So any help in this regard is greatly appreciated by me and my kids and my grand kids.... 
This post has been edited by must_must: May 12 2008, 12:27 AM |
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May 12 2008, 01:57 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 131 Joined: 1-November 07 Member No.: 166,999 |
I would try a system restore first of all if that does not help post a reply. Try a few days before the problem then a week or two before the problem if it does not help.
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 May 12 2008, 07:04 AM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 6-November 06 Member No.: 94,077 |
PoweredByGoogle thanks for your suggestion, unfortunately i do not follow the restore functionality. But I did got the solution from RichieUK and it worked for me perfectly. Mods pls. close the thread. I am putting the solution down for others who may come across my situation: QUOTE(RichieUK) Copy and paste ALL the following text in the Quote box below into Notepad.
Click on File(in the menu at the top)>Save as../Save as Type: 'All Files' /File name: fix.reg to your desktop. Then double click on the fix.reg file on your desktopand agree to merge the information into the registry,then restart your pc. REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Unknown] "AlwaysShowExt"="" "QueryClassStore"="" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Unknown\shell] @="openas" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Unknown\shell\openas] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Unknown\shell\openas\command] @=hex(2):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,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,72,00,75,00,\ 6e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,20,00,25,00,53,\ 00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,\ 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,00,4f,00,70,00,65,00,6e,00,41,00,\ 73,00,5f,00,52,00,75,00,6e,00,44,00,4c,00,4c,00,20,00,25,00,31,00,00,00 This post has been edited by must_must: May 12 2008, 07:05 AM |
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