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Hi there,

looking for a bit of advice., and hope you can help

My father in law who is running windows 7 on his laptop. Seems to of done something on his laptop so that all the shortcuts on his desktop which are programme related, and all the programmes in his start menu, all want to be opened using microsofts office picture manager. The icons for all these programmes have also changed to the picture managers icon.

I have had a quick look at it, tried to do a system restore and this did not correct it.

 

any ideas on how to correct the problem?

 

Many thanks in advance ! :)

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Hi Poppy

 

I had the same problem. I solved it by downloading Creative Element Power Tools and then running the program (from the directory, as none of my shortcuts were working) "File Type Doctor". When I selected ".lnk" in the extension list it said in the Actions in the Right Click Menu:

 

"(user choice override)" in red ... and

"Open"

 

I then removed the "(user choice override)" and that was it. All the shortcuts were working again, just like they used to.

 

Good Luck

 

Dave

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