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When I click on the shortcut (*.lnk) it opens a Firefox window and does not work. (Widows7) Please help!!

FIDELIS
2012-03-13 20:04:00
Hello, try the options given in the comments of following question: http://www.makeuseof.com/answers/change-fix-file-associations-windows-7/
Twisted Trunk
2012-03-13 13:52:00
I wasn't able to get to the link that ha14 posted (could be entirely me and my browser issue ofcourse :D) but just incase you can't either then here is the link again => http://www.winhelponline.com/fileasso/lnkfix_vista.zip this one should fix your issue.
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2012-03-12 23:12:00
somehow the file association was corruptedyou can try the following from winhelponline, extract and click on ithttp://www.winhelponline.com/fileasso/lnk_fix_w7.zip