Windows Vista Home basic Admin problems

by tasheem6 Dec 31, 2011 5:46AM PST

I have Windows Vista and im having a certain admin problem. I dont know how this started, but all of a sudden when i click on shortcuts on my desktop, it says something like choose the program. For example, when i try to launch something like internet explorer (which i dont use) it says Choose the program you want to use to open this file. File: iexplore.exe. and its been doing this for ALL of my shortcuts except for google chrome for some reason. I also KNOW that im a admin on my computer and its still treating me like a standard user. Any help?

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Any viruses or malware recently?

by MarkFlax Forum moderator Dec 31, 2011 5:49AM PST

Have you had any viruses or other malware recently?

What has changed since it worked properly?

What about your other Admin account. Does that work?

Mark

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So the old LNK association issue?

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Dec 31, 2011 6:07AM PST

Try http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/itprovistadesktopui/thread/e8631c28-4ce5-43cc-8865-b75fa2255b57/

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LNK

by tasheem6 Dec 31, 2011 7:44AM PST

didnt work. i downloaded it and it did nothing.

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Sounds proper.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Dec 31, 2011 7:58AM PST

Downloading it would do nothing. And if it's not the LNK issue then it may not be the right idea. It's a safe thing to use so let's hope you can run it.
Bob

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Eh?

by tasheem6 Jan 1, 2012 8:45AM PST

uh what i meant was that i put those registry files in there and restarted my comp. it still did not work.

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It's a little late here.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jan 1, 2012 1:45PM PST

I'll check in again later.

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