.exe by default opens in I.E..now how to deal???
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krishnandu
Skilled
Just right click the .exe file while pressing shift and "choose open it with" and then select your desired program and choose it as your default program.
If the avobe solution doesn't work right click the .exe file and select properties, you can choose default program for those type of files from there.
But if you don't mind, I didn't understand the problem correctly. How can .exe file's opens in IE?? I mean say if I run an application how can it open in IE???
If the avobe solution doesn't work right click the .exe file and select properties, you can choose default program for those type of files from there.
But if you don't mind, I didn't understand the problem correctly. How can .exe file's opens in IE?? I mean say if I run an application how can it open in IE???
ultimabasher
Skilled
Scan with a malware scanner. Its mostly an infection if it is automatically doing this. If it is something you did, you can always go ahead and change it from properties.
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krishnandu
Skilled
^^^Right. Even I thought that. How can anyone opens .exe files in IE??
Probably it's a malware infaction. Try what that avobe member's suggested.
Probably it's a malware infaction. Try what that avobe member's suggested.
lol.. SURAJ didn't explain it correctly..
Guys what really happened was my friend downloaded a IE add-on and he thought like mozilla it can be opened in IE itself. (Didn't know it's a .exe file). So from IDM window he right clicked that file and opened it with IE. But in Win 7 when doing so, 'Always use this program' is checked.
So now EVERY .exe file is opening in IE including explorer
. Of course PC goes into infinite loop or process!
As a temporary solution, we created a new account but how to get the old account settings back? Also in such cases what really can be done? It's like a catch-22 situation!
So it's not a malware infection for sure. Can ANYTHING be done in this case to preserve that account? Please note that even 'regedit' won't work as well or anything for that matter!
P.S. Suraj a.k.a SRJ is a friend of mine and this incident happened at his home while I was there!
Guys what really happened was my friend downloaded a IE add-on and he thought like mozilla it can be opened in IE itself. (Didn't know it's a .exe file). So from IDM window he right clicked that file and opened it with IE. But in Win 7 when doing so, 'Always use this program' is checked.
So now EVERY .exe file is opening in IE including explorer
. Of course PC goes into infinite loop or process!As a temporary solution, we created a new account but how to get the old account settings back? Also in such cases what really can be done? It's like a catch-22 situation!
So it's not a malware infection for sure
. Can ANYTHING be done in this case to preserve that account? Please note that even 'regedit' won't work as well or anything for that matter!P.S. Suraj a.k.a SRJ is a friend of mine and this incident happened at his home while I was there!
ryanrulez4ever
ex-Mod
even though its not a malware function, try this
Tool to reset shell\open\command registry keys | Symantec
Theres a manual way of doing it in Registry, but forgot that, so try this, its a definite fix, it shall restore all windows shell based settings to default
Tool to reset shell\open\command registry keys | Symantec
Theres a manual way of doing it in Registry, but forgot that, so try this, its a definite fix, it shall restore all windows shell based settings to default
krishnandu
Skilled
start menu -> default programs-> set you default progs -> click explorer -> set this program as default.
Don't know. But this may help.
Don't know. But this may help.
krishnandu
Skilled