I opened .exe file in internet explorer by mistake after that i am not able to open any exe files, all files are open in internet explorer. The .exe association is corrupted. Please help me to resolve this issue.
Thanks,
I opened .exe file in internet explorer by mistake after that i am not able to open any exe files, all files are open in internet explorer. The .exe association is corrupted. Please help me to resolve this issue.
Thanks,
You need to delete this key in the registry (with regedit.exe
) in order to make Windows forget the bad file association choice:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\FileExts\\.exe\\UserChoice
as you can see in the link of loviji's answer.
In general, you delete the key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\FileExts\\.xyz\UserChoice
where you replace .xyz
with either .exe
, .bat
, .cmd
, .com
, .lnk
, or anything else you need.