GreenSmurf Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 Dear forum, I never thought it would happen to be but... Since the last time I used CCleaner on my Dell running XP, now none of my file extensions are associated with programs. Including .reg (so I can't use the generic backup) and .exe so I can't even type regedit.exe into the "run" list. I've figured out a few workarounds and have gotten CCleaner to restored all of the .reg files made in the past month. Still same problem. I also may have deleted a key from CCleaner>>Tools>>StartUp>> I've turned on everything that's there, but if something's been deleted is there a good way to find out or get it back? And, if you have any other ideas as to what I might have done to create this particular problem, what would be your best guess as to what I did and how to fix it? I assure you, I'm usually (often? at least sometimes) not this dumb. Lesson learned--don't drink, get mad at your computer, and then try to take it out on it with CCleaner. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwillener Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 I wonder what caused this - I have never heard of such a thing before. Anyway, the easiest to get all your functionality back is to use System Restore, and set it back to a date before the whole thing started. I hope you do have a good system restore point! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenSmurf Posted June 10, 2010 Author Share Posted June 10, 2010 I hope you do have a good system restore point! Of course I do not... Would make it too easy. Not that it'll do be a lot of good now, but how do you set them in CCleaner? Apparently I can manually restore associations, and they stay when I reboot the computer. Weird. Although I haven't figured out how to do it for executable files (e.g. *.exe). Oddly enough, this did happen to my parent's computer about 15 years ago too--for no apparent reason .bat files didn't run when you double clicked them on Win95. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenSmurf Posted June 10, 2010 Author Share Posted June 10, 2010 Although I haven't figured out how to do it for executable files (e.g. *.exe). Okay, I did figure it out, for anyone else who does something similar in the future. Although it definitely disassociated a lot more files than just the few I've figured out... http://filext.com/faq/broken_exe_association.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators hazelnut Posted June 10, 2010 Moderators Share Posted June 10, 2010 File association fixes are listed here http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm and here http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/105/1/File-association-fixes-for-Windows-Vista.html Support contact https://support.ccleaner.com/s/contact-form?language=en_US&form=general or support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwillener Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 Very complicated instructions you all found! The easiest way to restore / reset a file association is with the ASSOC command. For example, to restore the .exe file association you open a command prompt, then enter assoc .exe=exefile Very simple, and it doesn't need any manual fiddling with the registry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators hazelnut Posted June 11, 2010 Moderators Share Posted June 11, 2010 The links I posted pwillener don't require anyone to 'fiddle' with the registry. Sometimes doing a command prompt can be a very scary thing for some users too. Anyway the main thing is GreenSmurf has got his association back Support contact https://support.ccleaner.com/s/contact-form?language=en_US&form=general or support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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