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XP open everything with notepad

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by fatuncleal 2 views

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Hi:

I have a Dell XP pro laptop, lately opens every programs with Notepad and it's a bunch of unreadable symbols. Doesn't matter if you click MS Word, Excel, Norton AntiVirus, other programs, it all open up in notepad. Because of that, I can't do a virus scan even I try to start from the CD. Does anyone has the same experience ? Please help.

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by wbarker

Sounds like a virus to me - unless you have been fiddling with your File Types folder options.

If you change the file extension back to .exe can you run it?

by juergen hartl

check your registry, Look at
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell
if there is an entry delete that entry (make backup first).

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