Tropical Dream Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 My friend is having a weird problem with his windows XP .exe files are not detected... which means that he can't open "word", Outlook" neither can open "system restore"... How can I restore the .exe file extension to work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+primortal Subscriber² Posted April 23, 2004 Subscriber² Share Posted April 23, 2004 sounds like something happen to the exe file association. see if this works (i take no resposibility if this screws up the pc, use at your own risk). Put in a text file with a .reg extension Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe] @="exefile" "Content Type"="application/x-msdownload" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe\PersistentHandler] @="{098f2470-bae0-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile] @="Application" "EditFlags"=hex:38,07,00,00 "TileInfo"="prop:FileDescription;Company;FileVersion" "InfoTip"="prop:FileDescription;Company;FileVersion;Create;Size" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\DefaultIcon] @="%1" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open] "EditFlags"=hex:00,00,00,00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command] @="\"%1\" %*" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\runas] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\runas\command] @="\"%1\" %*" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex\DropHandler] @="{86C86720-42A0-1069-A2E8-08002B30309D}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\PEAnalyser] @="{09A63660-16F9-11d0-B1DF-004F56001CA7}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\PifProps] @="{86F19A00-42A0-1069-A2E9-08002B30309D}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\ShimLayer Property Page] @="{513D916F-2A8E-4F51-AEAB-0CBC76FB1AF8}" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banzai Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 i had this problem, i rebooted and nothing worked themes or anything. ^surly he wont be able to open word pard cuz its an .exe so you might need to do that on another computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tropical Dream Posted April 23, 2004 Author Share Posted April 23, 2004 primortal: where did you get this from? cause the information on the PC is vital for business. I suspect http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...5&Product=winxp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+primortal Subscriber² Posted April 23, 2004 Subscriber² Share Posted April 23, 2004 http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HellBender Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 Rename a program to .com and try to open it. If you can open it, then its just the exe association that's screwed. If you can't, then you have a virus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+allan MVC Posted April 23, 2004 MVC Share Posted April 23, 2004 Try the link to Doug Knox's file association fix in primortal's post above. That should be the correct solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tropical Dream Posted April 23, 2004 Author Share Posted April 23, 2004 http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm WOW !!! :woot: You're a genius!!! you solved the problem in less than 5 minutes !! Neowin is great once again btw... my friend is gonna join Neowin.net you got him impressed by the response time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banzai Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 lol if only i had known this a month ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultra Frosty Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 I have tears of joy knowing that I dont have to rename my batch files to .cmd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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