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
    2011-01-23T00:02:25+00:00

    I signed up with this just to tell you thank you i had this problem and spent the past several HOURS trying to fix it until i came upon your answer THANK YOU SO MUCH! it worked like a charm!

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-02-23T19:43:21+00:00

    thanks a ton.    creativelement.com/powertools/ works like a charm.  easiest fix iv'e had in a long while.    Jack

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-05-09T13:22:00+00:00

    Thank you. Worked perfectly, was starting to get stressed attempting to manually change each files default program, just to have it switch back to .lnk but this solved my problem in seconds :D

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-05-30T09:08:07+00:00

    This one works, quite a useful tool that Power tools thing.

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