Billy Pang
tuxedoman888 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 24 15:23:59 CDT 2006
i found this... "How to Fix a Broken .EXE Association" http://filext.com/info/showthread.php?t=12 it is possible to fix problem by editing the registry without using regedit? i haven't tried it so not sure if it works. anyways hope it helps and good luck Billy On 8/24/06, DJK(John) Robinson <djkr at msn.com> wrote: > > Got a phone call from a (database) client in a pickle. > > He's running Win XP, and has done *something* that has resulted in Adobe > Acrobat trying to run whenever he tries to run ANY .exe program: Word, > regedit, ..., as if Explorer had somehow got a file type association of > exe > with Acrobat - which doesn't make sense. > > Double-clicking on a .doc file opens up Word ok, for instance, but trying > to > run Word directly brings up Acrobat. > > The last thing he recalls doing was something like pinning a new program > onto the upper pane in the Start menu, and then changing its ?name, > ?properties. Sorry, it gets a bit confused here. > > I've got him to run System Restore from command prompt in Safe Mode, to > get > back to a previous checkpoint, but this failed at a late stage on starting > up Windows when it was apparently trying to run its own restore utility > program - yes, an exe, which tried to run Acrobat ...!!&$%"@%! > > This is outside my experience, and it's a difficult thing to try to look > up > in the KB. > > Any bright ideas I can pass on to him when he gets back to work in about > 12 > hours? > > John > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Billy Pang http://dbnotes.blogspot.com/ "Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box." - Italian proverb