All Shortcuts/Links Lead To WMP On Acer PC/Windows 7
May 7, 2012
Yesterday, a neighbor asked me what to do because all the shortcuts on the desktop, as well as everything in the Start menu suddenly would launch only Windows Media Player. Every shortcut/link on the computer lead to WMP. In other words, no program, other than WMP, could be started. Yet, looking at the Properties of individual shortcuts, the path to the exe file was correct in every case. Every exe program in the Start menu as well as all desktop shortcuts displayed the WMP icon. Going to the Program Files folder and trying to launch directly from exe files resulted in the launch of WMP. Trying to use System Tools/System Restore, going through the Start menu had the same result - WMP launched. There had been no new installation, or other change made.We finally fixed it by going to the Control Panel which did, in fact, allow us to launch System Restore and we restored the system to four days earlier. Three or four minutes later, after reboot, everything was perfect, but it was pure luck - we still had/have no idea of what took place.
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2) Color Management = colorcpl.exe
3) Device pairing wizard= devicepairingwizard.exe
4) Display Switch = displayswitch.exe
5) Direct X diagnostic = dxdiag.exe
5) DPI Scaling = dpiscaling.exe
8) Driver verification manager = verifier.exe (Undocumented, Security prompt will appear, accept it.)
9) Event Viewer Snapin Launcher = eventvwr.exe (Security prompt will appear, accept it.)
10 ) File siganture verification tool = sigverif.exe
11) Private character editor = eudcedit.exe (Security prompt will appear, accept it.)
allows creation or modification of characters :
12) IExpress Wizard = iexpress.exe
Create self-extracting / self-installing package:
13) Group policy editor = gpedit.msc
Used to manage group policies, and permissions, (Security prompt will appear, accept it.)
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