Vista's Media Center Opens All Files... Everything

I am trying to help an online friend of mine with a strange problem. It is
Vista Home Premium. For whatever reason, all of her programs try to open in
Media Center and obviously fail to open. It is almost like the reference
for .EXE files has been changed would be my initial guess. We can't seem to
find a way to correct this issue so I thought I would give this newsgroup a
try. Might anyone have any suggestions to correct this issue without doing
a Vista reinstall?

Thanks In Advance,
BT

Hi BT,

Try this fix from MVP Ramesh:

http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/165/1/

--
Jane, not plain 64 bit enabled :-)
Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
MVP Windows Shell/User

"Buford T. Justice" <?@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:8CE0FFB8-9EC6-43FF-BEA4-...
>I am trying to help an online friend of mine with a strange problem. It is
>Vista Home Premium. For whatever reason, all of her programs try to open
>in Media Center and obviously fail to open. It is almost like the
>reference for .EXE files has been changed would be my initial guess. We
>can't seem to find a way to correct this issue so I thought I would give
>this newsgroup a try. Might anyone have any suggestions to correct this
>issue without doing a Vista reinstall?
>
> Thanks In Advance,
> BT

That worked perfectly. THANK YOU!

"Jane C" <> wrote in message
news:E404DCEE-5EB8-4CEC-BBA4-...
> Hi BT,
>
> Try this fix from MVP Ramesh:
>
> http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/165/1/
>
> --
> Jane, not plain 64 bit enabled :-)
> Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
> MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> "Buford T. Justice" <?@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:8CE0FFB8-9EC6-43FF-BEA4-...
>>I am trying to help an online friend of mine with a strange problem. It
>>is Vista Home Premium. For whatever reason, all of her programs try to
>>open in Media Center and obviously fail to open. It is almost like the
>>reference for .EXE files has been changed would be my initial guess. We
>>can't seem to find a way to correct this issue so I thought I would give
>>this newsgroup a try. Might anyone have any suggestions to correct this
>>issue without doing a Vista reinstall?
>>
>> Thanks In Advance,
>> BT
>