Applications generate notepad upon start up.

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I recently was prompted to open a file with the "open with" option and chose
notepad.
Since then when windows loads, all of my prefetch programmes generate a
notepad box full of weird characters on the desktop and any attempt to open a
file results in notepad opening a new box, but not the application.
I can get round this by right clicking the icon and using "run as" and
unchecking the "protect my computer" box.
Spyware & trojan hunters,anti virus software all come up with nothing.
Does anyone know how to reverse this? TIA
 
Hi Ramesh, thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately I already tried this but
the restore facility only goes back to Setp 1st, which is after the problem
started.n Regards Richard
 
Tappy,

Click Start, Run and type COMMAND.COM
Type REGEDIT (this should launch the Registry Editor)
Navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.exe

In the right-pane, delete the following values if found:

* Application
* ProgID

Navigate to the following key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.EXE
Set the (default) value to "exefile" (Without quotes)

Navigate to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command
Set the (default) value to the following:

"%1" %* (With quotes)

Close Regedit.
 
Ramesh, can't thank you enough. Lots of hours, many newsgroups and a few
sites later you have finally cracked it. I was running out of hair to pull
out by the roots!! Thanks for everything. Richard
 
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