all server dlls now associated with notepad

[Sharon]

Through a misunderstanding of how associations are applied, changing one dll
on our Windows 2000 server changed ALL dlls to Notepad. While this has had
no real effect on running Windows, we feel it opens the server to more risk
since any dll file can now be opened and changed. Does anyone know of a
registry setting that would break this association between dll and Notepad
and put it back to "unknown"?
Thanks for any help.
Sharon

 

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-----Original Message-----
Through a misunderstanding of how associations are applied, changing one dll
on our Windows 2000 server changed ALL dlls to Notepad. While this has had
no real effect on running Windows, we feel it opens the server to more risk
since any dll file can now be opened and changed. Does anyone know of a
registry setting that would break this association between dll and Notepad
and put it back to "unknown"?
Thanks for any help.
Sharon

In Windows Explorer, go to Tools, Folder Options, File
Types. Find the dll entry (under extensions), showing
that notepad is the file type and delete it.

 

[Sharon]

Well duh. Thanks for reminding me to consider the easy fix first. That
solved my problem.

Thanks