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
    2010-04-29T10:46:43+00:00

    Hi Maikel,

    I had exactly the same problem and had a nightmare trying to start any of the programs installed on my PC.

    Many thanks to your post which came to me as rescue. It worked really well!!

    Thanks so much!!

    Amit

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-04-25T04:12:43+00:00

    Thank's a ton i just got this comp and i was almost starting 2 pull my hair out. This is a frustrating problem and i'm glad it was this easy to fix.

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-04-02T08:44:46+00:00

    Wow!  Something on t'internet that actually works!!!

    I had the same problem with accidently associating .lnk with IE and everytime I clicked a link, IE tried to download the .exe it was linking to!  The fix above from Creative Elements work a charm.  I'm even going to register it for the effort.

    Nice one.

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-01-28T05:41:48+00:00

    This worked for me when other proposed solutions didn't!

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