Lost file type associations!

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Steve Tapia

To make a long story short and to the point....

Went to "CONTROL PANEL" then to "FOLDER OPTIONS" then to the "FILE TYPES" tab where I saw twenty-nine (29) different file types that were associated with an icon type, but had no longer listed any of their three (3) letter extension. Instead of their listed extension listed in parentheses like so.(.TXT) it was listed like this. (NONE).

Now, to my recollection last time I looked, I think I remember seeing those entire file types associated with a listed extension and the appropriately associated icon. How am I going to repair all those associations? Is there some utility or application (like Windows XP Power Toy that repairs icons,) that will simplify this process?

If you would like to see what I am talking about, I have taken a screen shot of the problem along with some info provided by Belarc Adviser on my site at http://groups.msn.com/StevesNewsgroupPictures/shoebox.msnw (See "Problem Child" and "Problem Child 1" for close up)

I hope someone is familiar with this problem and can help.....I have never come accross this before.... and I'm stumpted!
 
/Steve Tapia/ said:
To make a long story short and to the point....

Went to "CONTROL PANEL" then to "FOLDER OPTIONS" then to the "FILE
TYPES" tab where I saw twenty-nine (29) different file types that were
associated with an icon type, but had no longer listed any of their
three (3) letter extension. Instead of their listed extension listed in
parentheses like so…(.TXT) it was listed like this… (NONE).

Now, to my recollection last time I looked, I think I remember seeing
those entire file types associated with a listed extension */and/* the
appropriately associated icon. How am I going to repair all those
associations? Is there some utility or application (like Windows XP
Power Toy that repairs icons,) that will simplify this process?

If you would like to see what I am talking about, I have taken a screen
shot of the problem along with some info provided by Belarc Adviser on
my site at http://groups.msn.com/StevesNewsgroupPictures/shoebox.msnw
(See “Problem Child” and “Problem Child 1” for close up)

I hope someone is familiar with this problem and can help.....I have
never come accross this before.... and I'm stumpted!
Click to expand...

See Doug's site, below, and click on XP-FIXES. There's a link to repair
file associations.
 
Thank You very much for your quick help. Were you able to see the pictures I
provided? Or did you not even have to look? Thanks again!
Regards, Steve
 
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