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Broken File Associations

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by dmatherton

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OK, I've been stupid.
Somehow I've managed to remove the File Association for "Shortcut" and now none of the links in my start menu, or the Office Shortcut Bar will work.
Does anyone have any idea of how I reinstate this (short of re-installing Windows).

Microsoft's site isn't much help (unless I'm asking the wrong questions) and I can't find too much out on the web other than generic tutorials on creating/assigning file associations (Shortcut seems to be special case).

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by dmatherton

Thanks for the help.
I managed to export the appropriate registry keys from a clean PC and then hack mine.

by bobho

You can trythe easy way by going to a command prompt and typing:

assoc .lnk=lnkfile

If this doesn't work then use the info in the MS article from the first post and do the reigistry edit.

DrBob:>)

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