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by moonshinew

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Even though virus scans show me as being clean, I have a strange problem that happened within the past couple of days. My file associations are completely wrecked. Not all, but a good bit. For instance, I wrote a short script in Notepad, saved with a .js extension and it now thinks it belongs to Dreamweaver. ???? Is there anything to look for, and/or how do I revert all to default? I got a feeling that it's a registry thing, but don't know where to look. Any help appreciated.

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by gigelul

Hi
A posibility (not very nice) is to open explorer and in menu remove wrong associations. After that, when you first try to open an file with no associations you will be prompt to chose the right application. Select and enable and this will be remembered for next use.
To revert all to default I don't know.

by ann777

The only way to revert to all default is to restore a backup copy of the registry (system.dat and user.dat -- depending on your version of windows) from a time before the problem started occurring.

Otherwise, file associations will need to bedone (corrected to open with the proper application) when the problem with each file type is found.

Delete the improper file association and then open it manually and set it to "always" open with the proper application.

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