All of my shortcuts go to the same program and they all have the extension, .lnk.

Anonymous
2009-11-07T23:36:44+00:00

When I look at the table of file extensions I see a prticular program indicated, and that program is the program that starts up when I click on any shortcut.  I see no way of changing that so that when I click on Internet Explorer, for example, Internet Explorer comes up instead of the wrong program.

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Anonymous
2009-11-14T10:36:17+00:00

Hi Mensard1,

I had the same problem. I solved it by downloading  http://www.creativelement.com/powertools/ and then running the program (from the directory, as none of my shortcuts were working) "File Type Doctor". When I selected ".lnk" in the extension list it said in the Actions in the Right Click Menu:

"(user choice override)" in red ... and

"Open"

I then removed the "(user choice override)" and that was it. All the shortcuts were working again, just like they used to.

Good luck,

Maikel

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-12-25T22:33:21+00:00

    I have no idea how it happened to my laptop 6ut you just saved my life ... thanks

    P.S. This was a Christmas Miracle :,)

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-12-25T22:32:12+00:00

    I have no idea how it happened to my laptop 6ut you just saved my life ... thanks

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-10-13T03:16:13+00:00

    I had the same problems all my shortcut had opened in photoshop even another exe programs, wmp, internet, explorer, spc companion, everything!!! but, I found the problems and I could fix it, they are like before

    first- you should open START, click in SEARSH PROGRAMS and you need to write  REGEDIT , push enter or click on, now, you should open some folders and sub- folders

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER (next) Software (next) Microsoft (next) Windows (next) CurrentVersion (next) Explorer (next) FileExts (next) lnk

    look the forder it's name is user UserChoice and delete, that folder is the problems that you made, closed, and reset windows, all is going to change like before

    I going to repeat

    1 start (click)

    2 searh programs (click)

    3 Regedit (you need to write this and open it)

    4 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts.lnk (you need to find these sub-folder clicking)

    5 UserChoice (you need to find and delete this folder that's the problem that you made)

    6 closed, and restart windows

    all you shortcut and exe program going to change like before (originals file)

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-09-19T15:23:12+00:00

    THANKS!! so much! As everyone, I´d been suffering for weeks, now I solved it in a couple of minutes.

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