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Click Start, Run and type "Command" and press Enter
Type the following and then press Enter after typing each one:
cd\windows
regedit
Navigate to and select the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.exe
This key is probably causing all the trouble. If this key is present, delete
it.
Additionally, download fixreg.com file from Grisoft Utilities page and run
it:
http://www.grisoft.cz/softw/70/filedir/util/avg_rem_sup.dir/fixreg.com
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Ramesh, Windows XP MVP
http://windowsxp.mvps.org
"Ramesh, MS-MVP" <ramesh@XOX.mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Backup and delete this key totally:
>
>
> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.exe]
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>
> --
> Ramesh, Windows XP MVP
>
http://windowsxp.mvps.org
>
>
> "Punkboy" <Punkboy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:26D59B82-5EFD-460E-B75D-73CE1F79FBF5@microsoft.com...
>> Thanks for the ideas but niether of them worked.
>>
>> "Punkboy" wrote:
>>
>>> I got some spyware/asware/virus on my computer and in the process of
>>> getting
>>> it off somehow it changed that all my .exe files now open in wordpad.
>>>
>>> Nothing works, I even had to go to another computer to get here.
>>>
>>> I feel like an idiot and have no idea how to change it back so that
>>> things
>>> work.
>>>
>