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How to repair a broken .EXE file association
A system that I'm working on got the Windows 7 Anti-Spyware 2012 virus. Before it was giving to me it had been running a while with it in it. I managed to manual remove it, but before i could terminate it, it managed to mess up all the file associations, including *.com, *.exe.
If you attempt to run anything it comes up with a box asking which program to use. The only to options are Internet Explorer, and Notepad. Now this is messed up for the user only, not the system, Administrator is still intact. It has been a very long time since i have had to mess with the the reg keys for assoc for a user profile...think maybe windows 98. So either i don't remember, location has changed.
Now all this has to be done from the Administrator account to repair. Can anyone help me out with this?
@studiohack: Both the other question and this one have not actually been fully answered... The file associations that a limited user sets is stored in two places. The first is HKCU\Software\Classes.<ext>, which points to another key in HKCU\Software\Classes\ that stores the actual actions associated to that file. The second is HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts.<ext>, which stores all the "Open With" options and the user-chosen default, and may point to a key in the first place. Naturally, the UserChoice overrides the original Open action. – user21820 – 2016-01-05T12:49:36.043