Upon PC cold boot one morning, I double clicked on
a desktop icon for ACT! 6.0 and was presented with
the Open with… screen. I chose Act! and the
program loaded. The same thing occured when I tried to open MS Word and several other programs
from the desktop. The targets for each shortcut
icon are correct. Not all shortcuts were affected.
For example, My Computer and Internet Explorer
work properly. When I added a shortcut for another
program to the desktop, it would not work. Now
I cannot get the majority of the application
shortcut icons to do anything. The PC has been
running fine to this point. Applications load
O.K. if I go directly to the executable file and
double click on it. It appears that only the icons
on the desktop and some in the toolbar are affected. I hesitate to reinstall Windows 98SE,
because I do not want to loose Outlook Express
settings, etc. Have never experienced this before. Any help would be appreciated.