DJK(John) Robinson
djkr at msn.com
Thu Aug 24 14:34:16 CDT 2006
I should have said - there's no exe entry there. Thanks anyway, Bill. John -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bill Patten Sent: 24 August 2006 20:19 To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] .exe always runs Acrobat John, You might try opening windows explorer, going to tools, folder options then file types then scroll down and see if acrobat is assigned to exe ( there should be no exe in there by the way.) then delete or edit to correct depending on the skill set of your client. HTH Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "DJK(John) Robinson" <djkr at msn.com> To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 11:55 AM Subject: [dba-Tech] .exe always runs Acrobat 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 _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com