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lnk file association
Could you post the regfile you are trying to apply, or point to where you've
got it? I'd like to try it myself. Do you have spyware protection tools, uninstall monitors or registry cleaners running? Process Explorer (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...sExplorer.mspx) can list all handles opened by all processes. You can give it a try, and see if anything references keys mentioned in your reg file. Process Explorer can kill pretty much any process dead. For example, if you kill explorer with it, it won't respawn. You can try killing explorer with it (or whatever you find opens them subkeys) and then apply the reg file from command line. Ilia "Daemonfyre" wrote in message ... The only thing that's showing anything other than those normal results you listed is: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\CTF\DirectSwitchHotkeys The result is NO MORE ENTRIES. I check and set it's permissions to my account too but still get the same message. "Ilia Sacson [MS]" wrote: Hmm. Well, let's do it the hard way then. Please install Process Monitor from he http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...ssmonitor.mspx. This nice program allows monitoring all file, registry and other activity. Start it up. Then configure it to show registry activity only (the toolbar button that looks like regedit.exe's icon pressed, other two not pressed), and open the reg file. The message should ask you if you really mean to add that stuff to the registry. Do not press anything, go back to Process Monitor, scroll down to where regedit.exe first appears in the Process Name column. Right-click, Include..., Process Name. Now you only see what's regedit doing to the registry. Clear the view by pressing Control+X keys or the little page and erazer button on the toolbar. Now go back to that confirmation dialog and press Yes. Process Monitor should show all the registry operations that regedit tried to do to change the registry according to the reg file. In the Results column, search for anything other than SUCCESS or NAME NOT FOUND or REPARSE or BUFFER OVERFLOW, these are expected. ACCESS DENIED would be good, or something like that. In the Path column, it should mention where exactly the access is denied. Then try setting right permissions on these keys. Ilia "Daemonfyre" wrote in message ... Tried in safe mode, no luck. Also tried in safe mode with command prompt, still no change. And I've gone through every program that's listed in the task manager that would close and stay closed and tried it again, still no luck. It just keeps giving me that error message. "Ilia Sacson [MS]" wrote: Have you tried to do it in safe mode? Do you have any spyware protectors/registry watchers running? Ilia "Daemonfyre" wrote in message ... Yes, I went in and verified each item under the key individually, all were set to admin group(which is me, as this is my home comp and I'm the only user) except one that was set to "TrustedInstaller" I set all of them specifically to my profile, rebooted and tried again, no luck, still gives the error message. "Ilia Sacson [MS]" wrote: Daemonfyre, Have you verified that you have the right to modify these regkeys? You may have to take ownership of the keys your regfile modifies and then grant yourself (or your group such as Admins) full access. Apply the change recusrively (to the key and all subkeys). The keys are probably HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.lnk and HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile. Thanks, Ilia "Daemonfyre" wrote in message ... Long story short, I'm another one of the dozens of people whose shortcuts and start menu files have turned into unassociated .lnk files. I've looked at several other threads and tried the fix that they point to, namely the .reg fix file. However, whenever I try to merge the file I get an error message that reads: Cannot import C:\lnk_vista.reg: Not all data was successfully written to the registry. Some of the keys are open by the system or other processes. I've tried closing every program in the task manager that will stay closed and it still gives the error message. I've tried moving the file from C:\ to the desktop, tried running regedit and merging the file through that and no luck. Could it have something to do with the fact that I manually assigned an association to the .lnk extension through the Default Programs option? If so then is there any way to dis-associate them so they can be properly re-associated? Or does anyone know any other way to fix this problem? |
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lnk file association
The link to the file is the one I posted earlier:
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/105/1/ I downloaded the lnk fix file from there. And I tried the new program you suggest and I don't see anything that looks to me like it's trying to access the keys, I made sure any of the Norton stuff that came with the Vista upgrade was killed and killed Windows Defender, still got the message. Killed explorer and ran the file through Process Explorer and it still gives the error message. |
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lnk file association
Try removing this part:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shellex\PropertySheetHan dlers\ShimLayer Property Page] @="{513D916F-2A8E-4F51-AEAB-0CBC76FB1AF8}" Ilia "Daemonfyre" wrote in message ... The link to the file is the one I posted earlier: http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/105/1/ I downloaded the lnk fix file from there. And I tried the new program you suggest and I don't see anything that looks to me like it's trying to access the keys, I made sure any of the Norton stuff that came with the Vista upgrade was killed and killed Windows Defender, still got the message. Killed explorer and ran the file through Process Explorer and it still gives the error message. |
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lnk file association
Yay, progress! Ok, that time it took the file and the changes, no error
message. But all of my lnk icons are still Adobe Reader icons(the last program I manually assigned the extension to through Default Programs when I was trying to make certain of what had happened) and still open through it even after a restart. "Ilia Sacson [MS]" wrote: Try removing this part: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shellex\PropertySheetHan dlers\ShimLayer Property Page] @="{513D916F-2A8E-4F51-AEAB-0CBC76FB1AF8}" Ilia "Daemonfyre" wrote in message ... The link to the file is the one I posted earlier: http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/105/1/ I downloaded the lnk fix file from there. And I tried the new program you suggest and I don't see anything that looks to me like it's trying to access the keys, I made sure any of the Norton stuff that came with the Vista upgrade was killed and killed Windows Defender, still got the message. Killed explorer and ran the file through Process Explorer and it still gives the error message. |
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lnk file association
If there is a DefaultIcon key under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile, delete the
DefaultIcon key. "Daemonfyre" wrote in message ... Yay, progress! Ok, that time it took the file and the changes, no error message. But all of my lnk icons are still Adobe Reader icons(the last program I manually assigned the extension to through Default Programs when I was trying to make certain of what had happened) and still open through it even after a restart. "Ilia Sacson [MS]" wrote: Try removing this part: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shellex\PropertySheetHan dlers\ShimLayer Property Page] @="{513D916F-2A8E-4F51-AEAB-0CBC76FB1AF8}" Ilia "Daemonfyre" wrote in message ... The link to the file is the one I posted earlier: http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/105/1/ I downloaded the lnk fix file from there. And I tried the new program you suggest and I don't see anything that looks to me like it's trying to access the keys, I made sure any of the Norton stuff that came with the Vista upgrade was killed and killed Windows Defender, still got the message. Killed explorer and ran the file through Process Explorer and it still gives the error message. |
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lnk file association
Nothing like that there, and wouldn't that just fix the icon display? My
real issue is getting the .lnk shortcuts to open the files they are supposed to be directed at like they are supposed to(IE my Guild Wars link opening Guild Wars instead of making Adobe Reader try to open the .exe file for instance). |
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lnk file association
Sorry, I had understood that your .lnk files were now working, but showing
the wrong icons, from your last post. You may also have to repair .exe file associations from http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/105/1/ . When you right-click on a .lnk file, and open the target location, does clicking on the actual .exe file the shortcut points to open Adobe Reader, and does it have the Adobe Reader icon? "Daemonfyre" wrote in message news Nothing like that there, and wouldn't that just fix the icon display? My real issue is getting the .lnk shortcuts to open the files they are supposed to be directed at like they are supposed to(IE my Guild Wars link opening Guild Wars instead of making Adobe Reader try to open the .exe file for instance). |
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lnk file association
No, the .exes themselves open normally. It's just the .lnk files that are
messed up. "dean-dean" wrote: Sorry, I had understood that your .lnk files were now working, but showing the wrong icons, from your last post. You may also have to repair .exe file associations from http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/105/1/ . When you right-click on a .lnk file, and open the target location, does clicking on the actual .exe file the shortcut points to open Adobe Reader, and does it have the Adobe Reader icon? "Daemonfyre" wrote in message news Nothing like that there, and wouldn't that just fix the icon display? My real issue is getting the .lnk shortcuts to open the files they are supposed to be directed at like they are supposed to(IE my Guild Wars link opening Guild Wars instead of making Adobe Reader try to open the .exe file for instance). |
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lnk file association
I think I would try the .exe file association repair from
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/105/1/ as well. Somehow, Adobe Reader is wrongly in the equation registry-wise, but I'm not sure where that is. If you could, export (by right-clicking on the key) HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.lnk to, say, your desktop and save it as Lnk.reg. Right-click on Lnk.reg, and choose Edit. Notepad will open; copy all the information and paste it into your reply, so that we can see exactly what is in that key. "Daemonfyre" wrote in message ... No, the .exes themselves open normally. It's just the .lnk files that are messed up. "dean-dean" wrote: Sorry, I had understood that your .lnk files were now working, but showing the wrong icons, from your last post. You may also have to repair .exe file associations from http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/105/1/ . When you right-click on a .lnk file, and open the target location, does clicking on the actual .exe file the shortcut points to open Adobe Reader, and does it have the Adobe Reader icon? "Daemonfyre" wrote in message news Nothing like that there, and wouldn't that just fix the icon display? My real issue is getting the .lnk shortcuts to open the files they are supposed to be directed at like they are supposed to(IE my Guild Wars link opening Guild Wars instead of making Adobe Reader try to open the .exe file for instance). |
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lnk file association
Exe filefix didn't do anything. Here's the exports from .lnk:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.lnk] @="lnkfile" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.lnk\ShellEx] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.lnk\ShellEx\{000214EE-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}] @="{00021401-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.lnk\ShellEx\{000214F9-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}] @="{00021401-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.lnk\ShellEx\{00021500-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}] @="{00021401-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.lnk\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{00021401-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.lnk\ShellNew] "Handler"="{ceefea1b-3e29-4ef1-b34c-fec79c4f70af}" "IconPath"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65 ,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,\ 74,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d ,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,\ 00,68,00,65,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00 ,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,2d,00,\ 31,00,36,00,37,00,36,00,39,00,00,00 ,-30397" ,-30318" "NullFile"="" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.lnk\ShellNew\Config] "DontRename"="" and lnkfile(just in case): [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile] @="Shortcut" "EditFlags"=dword:00000001 ,-4153" "IsShortcut"="" "NeverShowExt"="" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\CLSID] @="{00021401-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shellex] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shellex\ContextMenuHandl ers] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shellex\ContextMenuHandl ers\OpenContainingFolderMenu] @="{37ea3a21-7493-4208-a011-7f9ea79ce9f5}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shellex\ContextMenuHandl ers\{00021401-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}] @="" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shellex\DropHandler] @="{00021401-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shellex\IconHandler] @="{00021401-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shellex\PropertySheetHan dlers] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shellex\PropertySheetHan dlers\ShimLayer Property Page] @="{513D916F-2A8E-4F51-AEAB-0CBC76FB1AF8}" |