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Yes, it sounds like someone accidentally did an 'Open with...' and set defaults to windows explorer. &nbsp;You'll need to reset default programs for that user.
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Yes, it sounds like someone accidentally did an 'Open with...' and set defaults to windows explorer.  You'll need to reset default programs for that user.

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The link referencedl <br />
<a href="http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/19449-default-file-type-associations-restore.html" rel="ugc">http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/19449-default-file-type-associations-restore.html</a><br />
will change the association with .lnk &nbsp;back to .rar on the appropriate icon..
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The link referencedl
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/19449-default-file-type-associations-restore.html [http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/19449-default-file-type-associations-restore.html]
will change the association with .lnk  back to .rar on the appropriate icon..

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on one user profile so many icons changed to .lnk (as example .rar changed .lnk) . on administrator profile all ok<br />
(windows7)
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on one user profile so many icons changed to .lnk (as example .rar changed .lnk) . on administrator profile all ok
(windows7)

some icons changed to .lnk

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