Default File Type Associations - Restore

Brink, I use icon packager and like my fancy icons, IDKY. After I upgraded to 7 SP1 I clicked on WMP12 the next day (which I barely use) and it went to the msi and reinstalled it (or it somehow got uninstalled, IDK). I didn't think to change the associations. It changed some icons and I went registry fixing - and I messed some things up. Got all my icons back and everything is working fine but could you please post a zip or reg of a default WAV file type. Thank you for your hard work. The reg files already posted fixed the couple other mistakes I made. Thank you so much.

Thanks! That was quick. Um, when I reset my wav file I also noticed my txt was not right so i merged that one, too. I then noticed that somehow my .dic and .log files are set to the text icon. IDK what the heck I did. When you get time could you please post the default .dic and .log file type default, too. I DL File Types Manager and went through everything and those are the last 2 I need to fix everything back to normal. Thank you so much!

Had a minor brain malfunction and could not figure out what I did, I think I changed all my shortcuts to be opened with total commander, assoc lnk=lnkfile didn't help at all :P

Got back the default icons and everything,
Thank you!

Just a thank you from the UK!

The link file association registry patch worked perfectly first time. Problem solved in one minute after six hours of frustration.

I had got as far as realising it was a registry based association problem and even found the relevant locations but my efforts at sorting it out manually without another machine to cope from had failed.

The thought that you should offer your services to Microsoft crossed my mind but on second thoughts someone who delivers the results that people want reliably and efficiently would shake them to the core and I doubt they would survive the culture shock!

Many thanks,

Arnot

Brink said:

LOL, you're most welcome Arnot, and welcome to Seven Forums. :)

Thanks!

Just a couple of thoughts…

I have only just got my new machine and installed Windows 7 Pro 64 bit after picking up a nasty attack on my original XP Pro machine. I took the decision because I came to the conclusion that with the passage of time, the security of XP had become so compromised that it was fast becoming impossible to defend.

Anyone who has undertaken this migration under such circumstances will also be aware of the string of issues attached to changing OS and moving to 64 bit so I won’t bore you with the trauma.

Anyway, it was with significant dismay that I realised that my new machine, just populated with my programmes and recovered data seemed to have been similarly infected when all my icons and programmes tuned into multiple versions of notepad. Unsurprisingly therefore I was a bit wary of downloading a registry patch with no knowledge of what it contained, without cause as it turned out.

So… even having read your perfectly reasonable explanation of why you have chosen to distribute the fix the way you have, could I suggest that you provide an explanation of the changes the fix makes to the registry? At very least it would give some comfort.

Also, from my many hours research, the quantity of posts in this thread and with some idea of the sequence of events that lead to the problem I can only conclude that this problem is a result of a weakness in the Windows 7 environment.

Do you have any thoughts on this and if you agree, why do you think that Microsoft don’t seem to have a fix (that works)?

It’s worth pointing out that I am a professional but independent user of many years experience (I cut my teeth programming by punching paper tape and have even serviced a mechanical computer) and I am very careful with downloading and running any programme. I suspect that many of the other posts come from people of similar backgrounds. Thank goodness that I also do regular backups!

Regards

Arnot