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exe file extention recovery

Hello all.
My problem is i accidently deleted my file association for the *.exe and most of my files will not run. the open with box comes up and anything i select just brings me back to the open with box. i tried the shell.inf install and was going to try the tweakui file but i can't get it to open. Can someone please HELP!!

Thanks!!

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Lermitte

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calacuccia

Hi Lopezr,

I'd suggest to try a fix via the registry editor:

Go to Windows directory and find regedit.exe, run it

My Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe

In the .exe registry, you should have:

(Standard) "exefile"
Content Type "application/x-msdownload"

Now try to run some and see what help it does.

Good Luck,

Calacuccia

joed

If he deleted the EXE association Regedit.exe probably won't run.

calacuccia

Well joed, probably not. Maybe it will, as he states that 'most of his files' don't run. I simply did not think about the obvious problems he could have.

Hopefully something brought up here will work,

Calacuccia

lopezr

ASKER

i tried everything everyone suggested and to a point some things worked. I still get errors for the applications. I can't remove/edit the file association for applications. Can someone tell me how to do this. I'm positive this is the problem.
after i did the regedit that calacuccia recommended my regedit doesn't work in windows.

i appreciate all the help.

lopezr

ASKER

i renamed my system.dat and user.dat files, restarted windows and i got back the use of regedit, but no luck with the anything else.
in file types box for application
type: application
content type: application/x-msdownload
default extension: dll
actions:

should there be something in actions??

lopezr

ASKER

PROBLEM SOLVED.
I USED THE SCANREG /RESTORE command in ms-dos and selected a file with a date prior to my days of trouble, everything was back up and running.

I would like to thank you all for your help.

rayt333

You should accept the comment made by Lermitte
Date: Sunday, January 09 2000 - 08:52AM EST as the answer since in all fairness this is what he suggested and you said it worked, right???

adam8

Could someone just send you a registry file that you run and it writes information to the registry