Restoring associations in Windows Vista & XP
Vindovs Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Sometimes it happens that in the course of experiments with programs, Windows lost file associations. For example, I have in the process of experimenting with browsers that flew and did not respond to the restoration of Association execution of external links in Internet Explorer, the appropriate standard of associations utility in Windows will not It helped. If you are a guru thin registry settings, you can overcome this problem by prescribing the relevant branches of the stitch and settings, but I consider myself ordinary, unsophisticated user, not the registry settings branches mindful heart, you need to register, in that such a problem has taken away a lot of time. Since questions about this kind of difficulties periodically pop up on the Internet, it has long accounted for reg-files that restore default registry settings in relation to the file association. So, if you have already inserted a bootable disk with Windows distribution to reinstall - do not rush, give yourself another chance.
The following quote set of tethers .reg, which will correct the situation. Files speak for themselves, restoring default, the same name association.
For Windows XP:
- Batch File
- CAB
- CHM
- COM
- CPL
- Directory
- Drive
- EML
- EXE
- Folder
- GIF
- HLP
- HTA
- HTM / HTML
- ICO
- INF
- Internet Explorer Desktop Icon Fix
- JPE / JPG / JPEG
- LNK (Shortcut)
- MPG / MPEG
- MSC
- MSI
- MSP
- REG
- SCF
- SCR
- TXT
- TIF / TIFF
- URL
- VBS
- ZIP Folder Association Fix
For Windows Vista:
- audiocd
- avi
- bat
- bmp
- chm
- cmd
- com
- dvr-ms
- exe
- gif
- htm
- html
- ico
- inf
- jpe
- jpeg
- jpg
- js
- lnk
- mp3
- mpe
- mpg
- msc
- mpeg
- reg
- scr
- tif
- tiff
- txt
- vbs
- wma
- wmv
- wsf
- xml
- xps
- zip
- Folder
- Directory
- Drive
To fix the association for a specific file type, download the appropriate correction (use the right mouse button - save as). Unzip (if required), right-click on the REG file and choose "merge". Remember that to apply these fixes, you must be an administrator.