Programs turned into text files


  1. lavastones
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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.
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  3. Golden
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    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.

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  4. lavastones
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    Sorry, I seemed to of said the wrong thing in the first post. Everything is now an lnk file.
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  6. Golden
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    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.

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  7. Orbital Shark
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    Follow the instructions in the link that Golden has provided. It's the EXE extension that needs restoring.
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  8. lavastones
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    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.
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  10. Golden
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    Are these Ink files on the Desktop, or inside program Files?
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