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All executibles in vista open with media center
Got one here for everyone to puzzle on. All my executable files are
associated with Windows Media center. And I mean all. I try to personalize my settings, windows media center opens, I try to go to windows updates and recieve this prompt: "A website wants to open web content using this program on you computer. Media Center Allow or do not allow. " I cannot unistall anything since an uninstall is an exe windows media center opens. The only thing that I can do is Internet Explorere. Everything else trys to open in media center. I can get to the control panel and file associations there, and try to make file types open with a certian program, but all the ..bat, .com, dll, ect say unknown program and I have no idea what program to associate them too. And exe is not even listed. I have looked at another test vista machine and the file associations are also unknown. There is no "open with" when right clicking on any of the exe files either. The things I am able to do include: Internet Explore, I can open the control panel but applications associated with the control panel will not run, and it seems that MSI files will still run but not the program once installed. Version is RC2 5744. I have only Vista install, virus scan, and adobe. Had not gotten to Office yet. I have tried safemode to do a restore, but everything including restore opens in media center. I have also tried a repair. I sure am in a pickle and ideas? I am not against starting from scratch, but would like to know if there is a way aroung that. If I a knowledgeable tech can do it and not know how it happened or how to fix it, what is going to happen when Vista is rolled out the users? I do not even know how the association got changed but believe it was when I was installing Adobe 7.0.8 which did install and does run. |
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All executibles in vista open with media center
I installed the Office 2007 Beta on RC2 and all the Control Panel icons
disappeared and none of the system's wizards and property sheets worked. C2Ranches wrote: Got one here for everyone to puzzle on. All my executable files are associated with Windows Media center. And I mean all. I try to personalize my settings, windows media center opens, I try to go to windows updates and recieve this prompt: "A website wants to open web content using this program on you computer. Media Center Allow or do not allow. " I cannot unistall anything since an uninstall is an exe windows media center opens. The only thing that I can do is Internet Explorere. Everything else trys to open in media center. I can get to the control panel and file associations there, and try to make file types open with a certian program, but all the .bat, .com, dll, ect say unknown program and I have no idea what program to associate them too. And exe is not even listed. I have looked at another test vista machine and the file associations are also unknown. There is no "open with" when right clicking on any of the exe files either. The things I am able to do include: Internet Explore, I can open the control panel but applications associated with the control panel will not run, and it seems that MSI files will still run but not the program once installed. Version is RC2 5744. I have only Vista install, virus scan, and adobe. Had not gotten to Office yet. I have tried safemode to do a restore, but everything including restore opens in media center. I have also tried a repair. I sure am in a pickle and ideas? I am not against starting from scratch, but would like to know if there is a way aroung that. If I a knowledgeable tech can do it and not know how it happened or how to fix it, what is going to happen when Vista is rolled out the users? I do not even know how the association got changed but believe it was when I was installing Adobe 7.0.8 which did install and does run. |
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All executibles in vista open with media center
Hi,
Office 2007 Beta doesn't work well with VISTA until you download the Technical refresh. -- Paul "SESSION_EVENT" wrote: I installed the Office 2007 Beta on RC2 and all the Control Panel icons disappeared and none of the system's wizards and property sheets worked. C2Ranches wrote: Got one here for everyone to puzzle on. All my executable files are associated with Windows Media center. And I mean all. I try to personalize my settings, windows media center opens, I try to go to windows updates and recieve this prompt: "A website wants to open web content using this program on you computer. Media Center Allow or do not allow. " I cannot unistall anything since an uninstall is an exe windows media center opens. The only thing that I can do is Internet Explorere. Everything else trys to open in media center. I can get to the control panel and file associations there, and try to make file types open with a certian program, but all the .bat, .com, dll, ect say unknown program and I have no idea what program to associate them too. And exe is not even listed. I have looked at another test vista machine and the file associations are also unknown. There is no "open with" when right clicking on any of the exe files either. The things I am able to do include: Internet Explore, I can open the control panel but applications associated with the control panel will not run, and it seems that MSI files will still run but not the program once installed. Version is RC2 5744. I have only Vista install, virus scan, and adobe. Had not gotten to Office yet. I have tried safemode to do a restore, but everything including restore opens in media center. I have also tried a repair. I sure am in a pickle and ideas? I am not against starting from scratch, but would like to know if there is a way aroung that. If I a knowledgeable tech can do it and not know how it happened or how to fix it, what is going to happen when Vista is rolled out the users? I do not even know how the association got changed but believe it was when I was installing Adobe 7.0.8 which did install and does run. |
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All executibles in vista open with media center
I did the exact same thing not 20 minutes ago, though mine was while
attempting to install Adobe Acrobat Standard 6.0, on Vista Beta RC 1. All ..exe files are now associated with Internet Explorer. I've found registry fixes for XP, but obviously things are a little different in Vista. I REALLY don't want to wipe this thing.... If nothing else, maybe someone else can have a peek in their registry to figure out how things should look??? I can't even open regedit (it's an exe), but could patch the registry if I knew what the values should be. "PaulB" wrote: Hi, Office 2007 Beta doesn't work well with VISTA until you download the Technical refresh. -- Paul "SESSION_EVENT" wrote: I installed the Office 2007 Beta on RC2 and all the Control Panel icons disappeared and none of the system's wizards and property sheets worked. C2Ranches wrote: Got one here for everyone to puzzle on. All my executable files are associated with Windows Media center. And I mean all. I try to personalize my settings, windows media center opens, I try to go to windows updates and recieve this prompt: "A website wants to open web content using this program on you computer. Media Center Allow or do not allow. " I cannot unistall anything since an uninstall is an exe windows media center opens. The only thing that I can do is Internet Explorere. Everything else trys to open in media center. I can get to the control panel and file associations there, and try to make file types open with a certian program, but all the .bat, .com, dll, ect say unknown program and I have no idea what program to associate them too. And exe is not even listed. I have looked at another test vista machine and the file associations are also unknown. There is no "open with" when right clicking on any of the exe files either. The things I am able to do include: Internet Explore, I can open the control panel but applications associated with the control panel will not run, and it seems that MSI files will still run but not the program once installed. Version is RC2 5744. I have only Vista install, virus scan, and adobe. Had not gotten to Office yet. I have tried safemode to do a restore, but everything including restore opens in media center. I have also tried a repair. I sure am in a pickle and ideas? I am not against starting from scratch, but would like to know if there is a way aroung that. If I a knowledgeable tech can do it and not know how it happened or how to fix it, what is going to happen when Vista is rolled out the users? I do not even know how the association got changed but believe it was when I was installing Adobe 7.0.8 which did install and does run. |