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Changing Icons and File Associations Wrong
My daughter has Windows XP on her computer. She called last night frantic,
and not knowing what to do, or what she had done. It seems many icons on her startup menu have changed to a W, and when she tries to open various programs they all open in a Microsoft Word format, and a box is shown stating "File Conversion-Ms money.exe(or whatever program was opened) Select encoding that makes document readable. Windows O; MS-Dos O; or Other O;" Then below is shown a bunch of gibberish she can not read. Can someone please tell me how to help her change icons back to normal, and how to start all programs normally again..... so it will Mom to the rescue!!!! (Well with your help and knowledge of course :hehe. ) ~SmilingCrafter |
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Changing Icons and File Associations Wrong
File association fixes for Windows Vista:
http://www.winhelponline.com/article...ows-Vista.html She can choose the file types she wants to fix here. -- click the Ratings button. Voting helps the web interface. http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales...help_en-us.htm see ''rate a post'' Mark L. Ferguson "Smilingcrafter" wrote in message ... My daughter has Windows XP on her computer. She called last night frantic, and not knowing what to do, or what she had done. It seems many icons on her startup menu have changed to a W, and when she tries to open various programs they all open in a Microsoft Word format, and a box is shown stating "File Conversion-Ms money.exe(or whatever program was opened) Select encoding that makes document readable. Windows O; MS-Dos O; or Other O;" Then below is shown a bunch of gibberish she can not read. Can someone please tell me how to help her change icons back to normal, and how to start all programs normally again..... so it will Mom to the rescue!!!! (Well with your help and knowledge of course :hehe. ) ~SmilingCrafter |
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Changing Icons and File Associations Wrong
That was for Vista. This one is for XP.
Restore Default File Associations Easily: http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_easy_file.htm -- click the Ratings button. Voting helps the web interface. http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales...help_en-us.htm see ''rate a post'' Mark L. Ferguson "Smilingcrafter" wrote in message ... My daughter has Windows XP on her computer. She called last night frantic, and not knowing what to do, or what she had done. It seems many icons on her startup menu have changed to a W, and when she tries to open various programs they all open in a Microsoft Word format, and a box is shown stating "File Conversion-Ms money.exe(or whatever program was opened) Select encoding that makes document readable. Windows O; MS-Dos O; or Other O;" Then below is shown a bunch of gibberish she can not read. Can someone please tell me how to help her change icons back to normal, and how to start all programs normally again..... so it will Mom to the rescue!!!! (Well with your help and knowledge of course :hehe. ) ~SmilingCrafter |
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