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by yellowman

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PC with Win95 installed. All existing shortcuts on desktop and taskbar are unidentified (i.e. white paper with windows logo) except windows default icons (i.e. My Computer, briefcase etc..). The files are also showing their .LNK extension even though show MS-DOS extensions is not checked under folder options. Shortcuts are not working although programs are still installed and working. Newly created shortcuts have the same effect as well. Thanks for the help in advance!! Question has been posedto several specialist none could answer.

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by dmiles

You have corrupt files in the registry and you can use your system startup disk to restore the registry,also if you have the Tweak UI you can use it to restore your system files and the registry.insert the startup disk and boot the system,boot into safe mode and choose the option to install without cd-rom support,type setup and after files are extracted,then donot go any futher,shut down system wait ten sec. and boot without floppy,should work.

by jbullard

You're missing the association for the .lnk extension. The quickest way to fix it is by importing a working registry value for .lnk. Go to a working Win95 machine and click Start|Run|regedit. Find the key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.lnk and highlight it. Then click Registry|Export Registry (make sure that the "Selected branch" option is selected) and save the file to a floppy. Take the floppy to the PC with the broken .lnk problem and start windows explorer. Right click the .reg file that you saved andchoose "edit". Make sure that you don't see anything other than the .lnk stuff (you don't want to accidentally import the entire registry from the other computer) Double-clicking the .reg file on the floppy will restore the .lnk association into the registry.

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