I opened a program (.exe) with Microsoft's Notepad, just to see what would happen, and apparently all .exe files now open with Notepad. How do I fix this? Even explorer.exe now opens with Notepad. I am using a Windows 7 computer. I thought (using Task Manager) ending explore.exe and reopening it would fix it but since that opens with Notepad, it didn't. I only have a few programs open that were opened before I messed up, which is how I am able to ask this. Please help!
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can you post an image of your registery at `HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe` with all nodes expanded? – Frank Thomas Jan 20 '17 at 16:27
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How do I do that? – Christian Sirolli Jan 20 '17 at 16:27
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1see several techniques here: https://www.raymond.cc/blog/fix-or-restore-broken-exe-lnk-com-association-caused-by-virus/ – Frank Thomas Jan 20 '17 at 16:30
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I got explorer.exe back by typing explorer.exe in command prompt. So things are little better. – Christian Sirolli Jan 20 '17 at 16:41
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@FrankThomas one of the solutions found in that link worked. Thanks for the help – Christian Sirolli Jan 20 '17 at 16:43