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| Thread ID: 57775 | 2005-05-12 08:48:00 | virus(?) meltdown | kaliyuga (6711) | Press F1 |
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| 354459 | 2005-05-12 20:24:00 | Download and run this association restore file (homepages.slingshot.co.nz) Thanks for posting this, Phoenix. Interesting. Here is some more info from this site (www.xs4all.nl) You can download a BAT file (zipped) that will restore all of the "default" associations that XP ships with. It will not restore those file associations created by 3rd party applications. The BAT file can be downloaded here. Note: This does not repair a damaged association. If the "exefile" (.exe) Registry key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT has been modified to run ABCDEF.EXE rather than EXPLORER.EXE for executable files, then EXE files will still run with ABCDEF.EXE. This command only restores the Default association for the file type. |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 354460 | 2005-05-12 21:17:00 | A dirty install is a copy of Windows over an existing copy, without formatting it. It will replace your old core files, and it should replace your registry (which may be the issue here). I would leave this idea as a last resort though; you may lose some or all of your files, you may be able to rescue them. I am wondering if adding your harddrive to someone elses comp (as slave) and trying to get the files that way would work. Their master harddrive would need to run a similar O/S, and be the active partition. What do the others think, would it work? |
Myth (110) | ||
| 354461 | 2005-05-12 21:20:00 | What he is trying to say, there is that if the application exe file has been modified, then the file association is not going to do squat. What is interesting though, is that the "bat" extension does not require an association within Windows, but seems to be built-in. I have already been down this road with a clients laptop, but maybe Kaliyuga likes the pain of an install, who knows. |
pheonix (36) | ||
| 354462 | 2005-05-12 23:06:00 | yes phoenix , i did try the file association program you gave but couldn't run it. It is pretty much sorted now, managed to squeeze most of what i wanted to save into a partition ( for some reason didn't twig to this immediately!) and did what i suppose amounts to a dirty install of windows and can now function, will have to format and clean it up properly now. thanx all |
kaliyuga (6711) | ||
| 354463 | 2005-05-13 03:22:00 | OK, just very close symptoms to what I had. Great to hear your up and running again, and now with some more knowledge as well. :D | pheonix (36) | ||
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