Did you ever come upon a file that you could not open in Windows because there was no program associated to the file type that could open it? Maybe you tried to open the file in a text editor, or in a program that you thought would be able to open it. Most users however [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Fix File Associations After Virus Attack
A successful attack with a computer virus can have all kinds of negative impact on a computer system. From data that is transferred to third parties over advertisement popups to encrypted drives that can only be decrypted after paying a ransom to tampering with the operating system to make it harder for the user to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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How to fix broken file associations
Did you ever have the problem that you wanted to change the file association of a certain file type but were not able to ? The normal way of right-clicking the filetype, clicking on Properties, then on the Change button next to the Opens With entry and browsing to the executable did not work for me because the executable was not added as the default software.
