I do dumb things- .exe problem

[Sunbaby]

Okay okay, so this is what's going on. I have a worm... I get rid of said worm and go through the procedures to clean up the worm. One of the tasks was to run the registry editor, go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and change the default for the value type of .exe to "%1" %*. now certain programs won't execute, which makes me think this screwed something up, but I can't remember the original default value type. I was wondering if someone knew it for WindowsME. Thanks!

 

[ratchet]

Sunbaby,

Welcome to TSG.

Before you edit your registry you should all ways create a backup.

So create one now and then try this;

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=221512

 

[TonyKlein]

Download Exefix.com from this site: http://home.earthlink.net/~rmbox/Reticulated/Only_IE.html

Doubleclick it, and it will restore the default Windows file associations for exefiles without the need of manually editing the Registry.

Good luck,

 

[jm100dm]

Running win98se and these are my default values. I would not think that these would change from system to system.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe "exefile

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile "application"

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\DefaultIcon "%1"

jm100dm

 

[TonyKlein]

What Sunbaby is referring to, is the deafult value date for HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command

It's "%1" %*

However, the Exefix will rebuild the entire key, which is the best and safest way to restore the defaults.

 

[jm100dm]

I would go with Tony's advice. I was typing too slow I guess.

jm100dm