Windows 7 problem "Open with"


  1. controllerhead
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    Windows 7 proffesional 64bit
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    Windows 7 problem "Open with"


    Hey there, this is a really bad problem. My friend sent me a file, I thought it was a song. So i right clicked and pressed open with. I put open with windows media player And i forgot to untick the box"Always use this program to open this kind of file" so now all my programs use windows media player.

    Snap shots (I changed it to so many differnet programs still. When I open it it opens the program I selected)
    SNAP 1: 5a8f23dab49a7a45b83bd1fa2eb821f2.png
    SNAP 2: (Any time I open a program it open my google chrome and shows me this): 5989756291e8fee441fbb1e5b0efa178.png
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    Info: {[And even if I try changing the default program to ex: google chrome It still opens like the snapshot in ... SNAP 2

    Please help, im suffering from this problem :/.
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  3. Brink
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    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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    Hello controllerhead, and welcome to Seven Forums.

    Downloading and merging the .reg files for the listed .lnk (LNK) and .exe options in the tutorial below will restore their default associations.

    Default File Type Associations - Restore

    Hope this helps, :)
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  4. controllerhead
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    I did everything correct and I still see this problem:
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  6. Brink
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    I'm sorry, but what is the problem with it?
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  7. pebbly
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    Hi controllerhead, Following on from Brinks excellent advice, I would try rebuilding the Icon cache Icon Cache - Rebuild this will make the icons show correctly :)
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  8. controllerhead
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    When I open the program it opens google chrome. This goes for all the .exe programs on my PC.
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  10. Brink
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    This is even after you did what I posted above and restarted the computer afterwards?
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