All the icons have become icons of word doc and try to open explorer.exe in Word 2010

All the icons on my new Compaq Presario desktop PC now resemble a page with the logo of the word. When you click on them, they try to open via explorer.exe as a word 2010 document. Any ideas how to undo this?

All the icons on my new Compaq Presario desktop PC now resemble a page with the logo of the word. When you click on them, they try to open via explorer.exe as a word 2010 document. Any ideas how to undo this?

Suggestions:

1 do a system restore. Choice of date where you did NOT have this problem as your restore point.
Start button > Search box, type system restore > press the Enter key > uac prompt > click on choose a different restore point > next > select dates as your restore point, until the click > next > finish
To sit and wait. The machine restarts when it's done.

2 use this tutorial and rebuild your cache of icons: use Option. Easier.
http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/117229-icon-cache-rebuild.html

3. restore the .exe file association:
http://www.Winhelponline.com/articles/165/1/restore-the-exe-file-association-in-Windows-Vista-after-incorrectly-associating-it-with-another-application.html . for the benefits of others looking for answers, please mark as answer suggestion if it solves your problem.

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