Desktop Shortcuts / File Does Not Have Program Associated

Apr 9, 2008

2 year old Acer Aspire 5670 LTop running xp. After running a program to clean up my LT caled RegCure all my Dtop short cuts have stoped working.All I get is the caption " This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the folder options control panel"

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