wow, that sucked.
i just downloaded an exe that i knew to be just a self-extracting archive. i wanted to open in in winrar to look inside, so i right-clicked, chose 'open with', and picked winrar.
boom - all my exes were suddenly associated with winrar. i was moving too fast, and didn't notice the 'always' box was checked. i couldn't run anything! i was frantic. i needed to get online. i tried to run firefox from the task manager - no luck. i tried to bring up CMD - no luck.
after a few minutes of trying to run firefox, i finally realized that i could run an app "as administrator" and things would open. got online, and after some searching found a reg fix that sorted my problem out, but only after a good 10 minutes of frustration.
it definitely shouldn't be this easy to muck things up
i just downloaded an exe that i knew to be just a self-extracting archive. i wanted to open in in winrar to look inside, so i right-clicked, chose 'open with', and picked winrar.
boom - all my exes were suddenly associated with winrar. i was moving too fast, and didn't notice the 'always' box was checked. i couldn't run anything! i was frantic. i needed to get online. i tried to run firefox from the task manager - no luck. i tried to bring up CMD - no luck.
after a few minutes of trying to run firefox, i finally realized that i could run an app "as administrator" and things would open. got online, and after some searching found a reg fix that sorted my problem out, but only after a good 10 minutes of frustration.
it definitely shouldn't be this easy to muck things up
My Computer
- OS
- 7600 x86
- CPU
- Core 2 Duo e7200, 2.53 ghz
- Motherboard
- Micro-Star MS-7529
- Memory
- 2x DDR2 PC5300 1gb, 667 mhz
- Graphics Card(s)
- GeForce 9500gt, 512mb
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 22" LG Flatron w2234s
- Screen Resolution
- 1680x1050
- Hard Drives
- Excelstor SATA-II 250gb 7200rpm, 8mb cache
- PSU
- CoolerMaster M520
- Internet Speed
- 30/20 mbits
