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Programs turned into text files
My parents forced me to let my little brother use my laptop. He set every program to open in something. Now every program is a lnk file. Help please.
Last edited by lavastones; 08 Mar 2011 at 14:14.
My parents forced me to let my little brother use my laptop. He set every program to open in something. Now every program is a lnk file. Help please.
Last edited by lavastones; 08 Mar 2011 at 14:14.
Hi,
Do you mean that the default file associations are now with a text editor?
If so, you can restore the default associations using this tutorial :
Default File Type Associations - Restore
Please follow it carefully.
Ask more questions if you are unsure and we can help you better.
Regards,
Golden
Sorry, I seemed to of said the wrong thing in the first post. Everything is now an lnk file.
OK. Ink files are just shortcuts.
Are these on your Desktop? can you give us a bit more information about which files and in which locations? Perhaps a screencapture or two will be useful too.
Regards,
Golden
Follow the instructions in the link that Golden has provided. It's the EXE extension that needs restoring.
I did what gold's link said but when i logged back in nothing happened. All the exe programs have been converted into lnk files so i can't open any of them. Whenever i try to i just get a screen asking what program to open with. The icons on them all look look like peices of paper with the top right corner folded down. I can't really upload a screenshot in the current state.