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I opened one shortcut with Adobe Reader, and suddenly all my shortcut icons are showing the Adobe Reader file type. When I open any of them, Adobe Reader opens instead of the program. How can I fix this?

Hovsep A
2014-01-28 10:46:19
download the following on another pchttp://www.winhelponline.com/fileasso/lnk_fix_w7.ziphttp://www.winhelponline.com/fileasso/exe_fix_w7.zipextract and transfer them to a usb key, plug the usb key on your pc transfer the file to it and click on them, then reboot.you can try yo download and extract to your pc?
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Oron J
2014-01-28 10:09:25
See the discussion at this link:http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/how-can-i-restore-the-default-file-associations-in/c096cd7a-91cd-4460-af4d-f38d7ca54860 which addresses this scenario.