.EXE Now Associated with Adobe Acrobat!

BIG HELP! I purchased several MS programs and was downloading the programs
using the Download Manager. OneNote installed just fine. Following the same
process, I attempted to download Groove 2007 next. All of a sudden - I saw
no screens or made any changes to file extensions and associated programs -
NONE of my installed .exe files will open - they all try to open as Adobe
Acrobat files (which of course they can't, because they aren't!)

I can't run System Restore, because it is an .exe file! No where am I given
the chance to remove that association.

This new computer - with lots of the latest MS programs - is now useless
because very little will open. Even during start-up, most functions
(anything with an .exe extension) refuse to open.

I have great anti-virus software and have only been working with official MS
websites and files.

Any ideas?

Thank you!
~Deborah

Hi,

Go here, download and use the .exe file association fix from MVP Ramesh:
http://www.winhelponline.com/article...ows-Vista.html

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"IDICWorld" <> wrote in message
news:725C3F45-2E09-4956-A3E4-...
> BIG HELP! I purchased several MS programs and was downloading the
> programs
> using the Download Manager. OneNote installed just fine. Following the
> same
> process, I attempted to download Groove 2007 next. All of a sudden - I
> saw
> no screens or made any changes to file extensions and associated
> programs -
> NONE of my installed .exe files will open - they all try to open as Adobe
> Acrobat files (which of course they can't, because they aren't!)
>
> I can't run System Restore, because it is an .exe file! No where am I
> given
> the chance to remove that association.
>
> This new computer - with lots of the latest MS programs - is now useless
> because very little will open. Even during start-up, most functions
> (anything with an .exe extension) refuse to open.
>
> I have great anti-virus software and have only been working with official
> MS
> websites and files.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thank you!
> ~Deborah