How To: Open With - File Associations/Extentions

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I messed up with the settings and I changed and DELETED Some Files Of The: Open With - File Assosiations/Extensions !
They Were Related to: Text Documents, mdb , html, and html /link files

Now all my files have same color icons : white and blue(like the ini file) . and all associations/extentions that i use t
open up files with are not working and they dont open files nomore!

- How can I reset the OPEN WITH Associations to its original Default ? Can i do it from The Registry? How and Where

- How Can I Change The Icon for each File type to how it was before

- What is the BEST Practice to Solve above two problems?

Thanks
Linda

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Windows XP File Association Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm

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|I messed up with the settings and I changed and DELETED Some Files Of The: Open With - File
Assosiations/Extensions !!
| They Were Related to: Text Documents, mdb , html, and html /link files.
|
| Now all my files have same color icons : white and blue(like the ini file) . and all associations/extentions
that i use to
| open up files with are not working and they dont open files nomore!!
|
| - How can I reset the OPEN WITH Associations to its original Default ? Can i do it from The Registry? How
and Where?
|
| - How Can I Change The Icon for each File type to how it was before?
|
| - What is the BEST Practice to Solve above two problems??
|
| Thanks.
| Linda