The first letter in the extension “lnk” is a small “L” (l for link) and NOT a capital “i” (I for India) so be careful about this.Īs mentioned previously open regedit and delete the following keys HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.lnk This is how my start menu looked before applying this solution lnk association and associating lnk to “lnkfile” with a command. This can very easily be solved by removing the. Every shortcut on your desktop now looks like a text file and double clicking it opens notepad with some weird characters. One day when you login to your computer and open the start menu you see something similar below. html files still show the icon of the previous program they were associated with, this will disappear once you logout of windows and login. You might notice at this point that the thumbnails of. html extension you’ll get the following window asking you to choose a program to open this file. Here we go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.html Next navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\. Right-click and choose to delete the key and click yes to confirm it. html file type association go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.html
Navigate to the following path HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\. If you encounter problems in the future you can restore this file by going to File menu > Import and selecting the file. Go to Start menu > Run or press + R and enter regedit.īefore doing anything else take a backup of the registry by going to File menu > Export, enter a file name, choose a location and save. lnk extension with notepad (or some other program) this causes all shortcuts on your desktop and start menu to open notepad with absurd characters.
lnk file type association, this is when you/someone/some application accidentally (or intentionally) associates the.
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Windows XP had an option in the “Folder Options” (Tools Menu > Folder Option) dialog box to remove file associations but in Windows 7 you have to tweak the registry to delete a file type association. While you can change this program association via Control Panel there is no option in the GUI for removing it. php file) for the first time Windows asks you to choose a program to open this file a.k.a “Open With” and from then on this type of file becomes associated with that program (unless you uncheck “Always use the selected program to open this kind of file”).
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