[dba-Tech] .exe always runs Acrobat

Yes, you can put the registry entries into a text file and save it as a
*.reg. Then double click the file, it'll enter the required data into the
registry without using regedit. Voila...


Jon

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From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Billy Pang
Sent: 24 August 2006 21:24
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues; djkr at msn.com
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] .exe always runs Acrobat

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
>
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