Cannot perform disk cleanup and I lost the functionality of all programs.

Original title: Windows 7

When I started to do the update of windows, a box pops up windows.  He said windows media player.  I clicked it.  Now, I've lost the pop all programs and windows media center feature and I can't even cleaning disc.

Moving to win 7

I see.  In this case, I think that your executable file associations are badly affected.  This should be easy to fix however.  Please try this.

Click on this link and run the file as it downloads (you will be asked to confirm if you want to put the data in your registry database, which is fine).

http://www.SevenForums.com/attachments/tutorials/123734d1312706455-default-file-type-associations-restore-default_exe.reg

After you have added to your registry database, files should work for you again.

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