All my desktop icons open under 1 program. How to return to the original way can be opened as part of their own program?

Long story short, all my desktop icons and pretty much everything else opens under the same program.

I deleted the program that went all other programs and now all the desktop icons are left white and they don't know where to go.

I saw several responses to this before, but none of them were really clear. How can I get my programs to open to their original programs?

Could someone please provide a detailed response, I'm pretty new to this. Thank you.

Hello

It's like as if all your slots target for your shortcut got a little messed up. Here is a list of the simple troubleshooting steps that I suggest.

  • When this problem started to happen
  • Have you made a change to your system, such as installing the software before that happens?
  • Have you tried to delete the shortcut icons and create new ones on the oldest?
  • Have you tried to change the target location manually? -To do so, right click on any shortcut icon of the present Office on your computer, locate your target and see if it takes you directly to your location of program if not, go to your local disk, program files and scroll to the program that you want as a shortcut on your desktop. Then go on the address tab and click once. Copy and paste the address into the location your shortcut properties target.

Hope this helps,

Kind regards

Andrew

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