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Noek
October 25th, 2004, 10:53 PM
Hello !

during some struggling with my PC (Windows 98) I made a wrong move. All my desk-top pictogrammes that constitute a link to a programme are changed into "Outlook Express". The only pictogrammes that are unchanged on my workspace are "This computer", the "Recycle bin", "My documents" and "Internet explorer".
If I right-click on the icons and look for properties, I still find the right file reference. However, if I left-click on ANY of the changed pictogrammes in order to start the programme, Outlook Express always starts.
I can still start any programme by looking for it with explorer and starting them directly. Going to the programme followed by right-click and "send to desktop" does not help; still the pictogramme of Outlook re-appears.

Obviously I have told the system that pictogrammes of "links" should look like Outlook.

Could you advise me on how to get my normal programme-pictogrammes back on the desktop?
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Bad Dog
October 26th, 2004, 12:46 AM
If this just happened today or even yesterday, boot into dos mode.
At the c: prompt type scanreg/restore
Choose a date of the morning this happened, If need be, try the previous
date to last on if it still doesn't work.
Scanreg saves the last 5 registry backups, 1 each day.
Try that.
BD:disgust:

Noek
October 26th, 2004, 09:00 PM
BD

worked. THANKS !!