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• Failed to open all the files, they are all displayed as. INK files and asked what program to open it with Windows 7

  * the original title - .encre does that mean? where my desktop icons and taskbar gone? *

  Remember - this is a public forum so never post private information such as numbers of mail or telephone!

  Ideas: i can't open any of my files... I get a window that say they are all the .encre files and asks me what program I want to use to open... This includes all browsers as well... my desktop icons have also no image

  • You have problems with programs
  • Error messages
  • Recent changes to your computer
  • What you have already tried to solve the problem

  .lnk are shortcut files (shortcuts are usually what you have on your desktop and the start menu).  If inadvertently, you tried to right click on a shortcut and choose "open with...". ", you can breaking their properties.

  Because the associations are complex and the registry can be dangerous, the best way to solve your problem is to use the system restore to fix system associations when returning parameters at the same time that they last worked properly.  Here's how:

  1 - Hold down the Windows key and type R to open the Run dialog box.

  2 - paste in this command: %systemroot%\system32\rstrui.exe

  3 - follow the instructions to restore your system at a time before, it was working fine.

  If it was useful, you can vote by clicking on the green triangle. If it solves the problem, click on propose as answer. Thank you!

• After the removal of a virus, shortcuts are now asking what program to open it with Vista

  I have kaspersky anti virus and it has detected a virus, deleted and I thought everything was fine, but when I click on something like the calculator, Notepad, firefox, whatever it is, it asks me to choose what program I want to open it instead of open it automatically. This isn't a big deal, but it is very irritating and annoying. Other profiles on my computer seem to be. The account is not an administrator account, but has information, I want to keep. Any advice would be appreciated. I ran several other spyware and antivirus scans and all my computer ratio is not affected. Thanks again

  Hi DavidTuray,

  You can refer to the article below and run the fix it tool available and check if you can set the associated file.

  When you run an .exe on a Windows Vista-based or Windows 7 computer file, the file may start another program

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/950505

  You can also check out the following link and check if it helps:

  Change the programs that Windows uses by default

  You can also check the following link and try to download the Microsoft Safety Scanner and perform a full scan on your computer and check.

  Note: When you perform the analysis, there are risks of data loss you can take a backup of important data before performing analysis.

  Check out the link:

  http://www.Microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx

  Hope this information is useful.

• Trying to open the desktop icons, get the message asking you what program to open it with XP

  trying to open anything either on the desktop or the taskbar im asked what program to open with. does anyone know what program opens the files?

  Hi worley5153,

  1. you remember to make changes to the computer, after which the issue started?

  2. This only happens to you trying to open programs that use desktop shortcuts?

  3. are you able to open programs using its real .exe (executable)?

  4. What is the full error message?

  I suggest that you try the following Microsoft Fixit and/or the steps from the following links and see if it helps:

  Diagnose and repair Windows files and folders problems automatically

  How to change or choose the program that starts when you double-click a file in Windows XP

  You receive an error message when you try to start a program that has the an.exe file name extension

  I hope this helps.

• I have windows vista and when I click on a shortcut on the desktop I have a pop up asking what file to open it with. In order to open the file I find the actuall file.

  Original title: registry exe problem

  I have windows vista and when I click on a shortcut on the desktop I have a pop up asking what file to open it with. In order to open the file I find the actuall file. This also occurs when you download the software, which makes it difficult, because the file is not on the pc yet. All solutions?

  Looks like you may have a virus or other malware. Get your updated antivirus program and boot into Safe Mode. Note that some viruses can hide from your normal antivirus program, so you really need to scan in Safe Mode. To enter in Safe Mode when you turn on first, press F8 on every seconds until you get the menu, and then select Safe Mode. Then run a complete system scan.

  Microsoft has suggestions and offerings to

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/how-do-I-remove-a-computer-virus

  Moderator Forum Keith has a few suggestions along this line to

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/Windows_7-performance/Windows-Explorer-has-stopped-working/6ab02526-5071-4DCC-895F-d90202bad8b3

  If that suits him fine. If this is not the case, use system restore to go back to an earlier date at the beginning of the problem. To run system restore, click Start-> programs-> Accessories-> System Tools-> system restore. Click on the box that says show more restore points.

  You can check the corrupted system files. Open an administrator command prompt and run SFC if the above does not help. Click START, and then type sfc in the search box, right-click to SFC. EXE and click run as administrator. Then, from the command prompt type sfc/scannow.

  Finally if all else fails, you can look at the rather cryptic system event log. To make, click Start-> Control Panel-> administration-> event viewer tools. Once in Event Viewer system log-click and scroll entries looking for these "error" with indicator see if you can find guidance on where the problem may be.

  I hope this helps. Good luck.

• 'Open with' pop up at startup and during the session asking what file to open CHKUPD with. CHKUPD has no extension. Search does not find it.

  My problem is similar to the question asked by EamonnO.  Start a 'open with' screen opens asking what file to open chkupd with.  I think that hit "Cancel" would put an end to the action.  He appears periodically during my session on the computer or watching a movie.  I don't find the file using search.  I don't think that this means Daemon Tools because I never downloaded the program.  Some recent downloads include "Free File Viewer" and "Search for free Extension".  I have Vipre AV and System Mechanic running on my computer.  The situation may be harmless, but it is sure agrivating.  Thanks for any help you offer.  George

  Hello

  I had the same problem and there to remedy I just open the control panel and open then "Add / Remove programs.  The popup is apparently caused by a free File Viewer program.  I removed the program by clicking on the button Delete and the problem disappeared.  The free file viewer comes with a conversion program free .mp3 and seems to be completely unnecessary (I never needed the viewer of the file and open it with popup that was originally was boring and sometimes even nervewracking.)  If you do not have to uninstall programs of assistance, just the viewer of the file that comes as a free supplement program (problem).

  Once again, removal procedure: click on 'start '.
  Click on "Control Panel."
  Double click on "Add or remove programs".
  Click on "Free File Viewer" in the list of programs
  Click 'delete '.

  After this, the 'chkupd' open with popup when it stops appearing.

  Craig

• Why can't open my windows files to message asking you what program to open it with XP

  Each windows file or the program I try to open gives me a screen that says to choose a program to open this file.  I can't even access the system restore.

  I did a search for the restoration of systems, and none were found.  What happened and can this problem be solved.

  Hi PeggyNeary,

  It seems that your system is infected by the virus, update your antivirus and run a full scan of the system in safe mode.

  You can also consult: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311446 and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310585

  I hope this helps.

• Removed WinRAR and now everything. Programs EXE missing icons and asking me to choose what program to open it with?

  essentially removed WinRAR via CCleaner and now it asks me to choose a program to open another program with (AO, Firefox, Avast, etc...) and the icons of these are missing. I also tried to uninstall some programs but did not work.

  I'm sorry, I just realized that I posted in XP, but I needed it in vista... It's my bad... but will it work for vista?

  No problem. Click HERE for the fix for Vista.

• In Vista, all files lost association, constantly asked what program to open a file with

  First of all, whenever I try to open certain files, such as Internet Explorer, paint, or whatever it is, I get the "choose the program you want to use to open this file", and it has not happened before. Along with this, the little thing bar in the lower right corner of the screen (which includes the Volume, time and everything) never ends load when I turn on the computer. I think I have a virus and spin the Virus Scan right now (AntiVir, to be precise, which I think will remove whatever it is detected). Two days ago pop-ups randomly came quite often, even when I'm not all Internet Windows running. It arrived yesterday and for the most part, everything was fine, but today is that occur at startup problems mentioned at the beginning of this post. I tried to search for solutions to this online, and some Web sites suggested to open the Task Manager and try to fix something here. But unfortunately, I can't even open the Task Manager. CTRL Alt Del does nothing, and when I right click on the taskbar, Task Manager option is grayed out. Any immediate response will be greatly appreciated, and if there is any other information I can provide, let me know.

  * original title - Hey everyone, I have some problems with my computer and I don't know how to fix them *.

  OK, so it seems I did. I think I deleted everything that I needed to and restarted my computer. It seems that everything works fine however. Only new concern I have is some box kept popping up when I turned my computer saying 'Bad Image' or something. But it no longer occurs. I'll be restart my computer later to see if still appears once, but overall, everything is fine.

  Thank you very much for your support and help guys

  Edit: Pop up comes again. It is said

  Iexplore.exe - bad Image

  C:\ProgramData\logilaka/logilaka.dll is not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. Try to install the program by using the original installation media or contact your system administrator or the provider of software for support.

  I'm glad to hear that Malwarebytes worked for you!

  It's a good program.

  It seems that the "logilaka.dll" is Malware.

  It seems that you still have a problem, either with the malware, or remnants of it.

  Make sure that Malwarebytes is fully updated in Normal mode that you run in Vista.

  Once this is the case, restart and go to Safe Mode using the method "press F8" > rescan your system with Malwarebytes again.

  How to use Malwarebytes:

  1. open Malwarebytes > click the update tab at the top > get the latest updates.

  2. on the Scanner tab, make sure that the Perform full scan option is selected and then click on the Scan button to start scanning your computer

  3 MBAM will now start to scan your computer for malware. This process can take some time.

  4. when the scan is complete, a message box will appear

  5. you must click on the OK button to close the message box and continue the process of Malwareremoval.

  6. you will now be at the main scanner screen. At this point, you must click on the button to view the result .

  7. a screen showing all of the malware displayed the program that is

  8. you must now click remove selection button to remove all the listed malware. MBAM will now delete all of the files and registry keys and add them to the programs quarantine. When you remove files, MBAM may require a restart in order to eliminate some of them. If it displays a message stating that it needs to restart, please let him do. Once your computer has rebooted, and logged in, please continue with the remaining steps.

  9. when MBAM has finished remove the malware, it will open the scan log and display it in Notepad. See the log as desired, and then close the Notepad window.

  10. you can now exit the MBAM program.

  See you soon.

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• Tried to open the demo of MapPoint 2013 14 days, but he asked me what kind of program to open it with?

  Downloaded demo of MapPoint 2013 14 day.  Try to open but asked what program to open it with.  solutions?

  Hello

  Check with the help of MapPoint and in the MapPoint Forums.

  Highway, Streets & Trips, MapPoint - Forum
  http://social.Microsoft.com/forums/is/streetsandtrips/threads

  MapPoiint - Support
  http://www.Microsoft.com/MapPoint/en-us/support.aspx

  Support for MapPoint, streets & trips and Highway
  http://support.Microsoft.com/ph/851

  I hope this helps.

  Rob Brown - Microsoft MVP<- profile="" -="" windows="" expert="" -="" consumer="" :="" bicycle=""><- mark="" twain="" said="" it="">

• Why Windows asking me what program to open a JNLP file with after you have installed Java?

  I'm having a problem with a Web site that uses the Java Web Starter program to launch an application.

  I use Windows 7 Professional 64 - bit and IE9. I also tried this on 10 IE and Chrome and had the same problem. I am running update of Java 7 21, which, at the time of this writing, is the latest version of Java available. I only have this problem on a computer.

  When I go on the Web site, a window wonder if I want to open, save, or cancel a file called Meeting.JNLP. If I open it, he asks me to choose a program to open it with. When I navigate to javaws.exe in the Java folder in program files, I have highlighted, click Open, and then I went back to the "Choose a program" screen, but the Starter Web Java program does not appear as a choice. I can choose other Java executables from the same folder, and they appear in her choose a program window, but not the Starter Web Java program.

  I can actually force the application to start if I do a "save under" on this original popup, then go to a command prompt and use javaws.exe , and in fact, it will launch the application. However, I need to function normally, directly from the Web site.

  I tried to reinstall Java 5 or 6 times. Each post on the forum I find dealing with these issues of file association told me to use the file Association in the Control Panel, which is exactly what does not work. It seems that the installer is all simply not able to associate the program Java Web Starter of JNLPs. is it possible I can force a new association to file through the command line or the registry?

  Thank you!

  Thanks Jessen, earlier this morning, I found the assoc and ftype commands and managed to force the association in this way. I did this from an elevated command prompt:

  ftype JNLPFile = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin\javaws.exe" '%1 '.

  .Jnlp Assoc = JNLPFile

  And that the file is associated. Thank you for your response.

• Cannot open exe. files without pop up asking what program to use to open the file

  My PC has been infected! I have Windows XP. When I try to open any exe. file, I get a pop-up window asking me what program to open the file with. Any suggestions on how to fix this problem myself?

  Hello
  This problem occurs when your .exe file associations are broken. This is usually caused by malicious software that changes the default file associations in Windows. Follow these instructions to resolve this problem:
  Then try following the steps in this virus/malware removal guide: http://www.selectrealsecurity.com/malware-removal-guide
  It contains instructions which will remove most malware infections. If you have any questions, just ask me. I hope this helps you.
  Brian

• Applications running automatically, they ask what program to be open in

  I have no idea what happened, but now whenever I try to open an application (Internet Explorer, Windows Media Play, whatever it is) it does not work, he asks what program I want to open it in. I found that if I right click on it and select "Start" it works, but I don't want to spend my life to do this whenever I want to check my e-mail, facebook, or simply listen to the music. Anyone know a fix for this? It's really annoying.

  Hello

  Try the system restore before it happened.

  How to make a Vista system restore
  http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/76905-System-Restore-how.html
  Its control panel - backup and restore center - left upper repair Windows

  SO which opens also to use the below to execute.

  Start - type in the search box-> rstrui.exe CONTROL the top - top - right click RUN AS ADMIN

  or use start - computer or Windows Explorer to navigate to

  C:\Windows\System32\rstrui.exe

  Top - right click RUN AS ADMIN

  =====================================

  To run a particular program until get them you all back to the normal fair use start - search and type in the
  program name or the name of the executable file - OR use start - computer or Windows Explorer to access to the
  program, and run it from there.

  Define your main program associations, and then you can edit any type of file to the correct program.

  How to set default Associations for a program under Vista
  http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/83196-default-programs-program-default-associations.html

  How to associate a file Extension with a program Type in Vistahttp://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/69758-default-programs.html

  How to view and change an Extension of filename on Vista
  http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/103171-file-name-extension.html

  How Unassociate a Type of Extension file in Vista and a utility to help
  http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/91920-unassociate-file-extention-type.html

  Restore the Type Associations by default Vista file extensions
  http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/233243-default-file-type-associations-restore.html
  I hope this helps.
  Rob - bicycle - Mark Twain said it is good.

• All exe files ask what program to use to open it with

  I just removed a virus on a computer Windows 7 Basic. Now when I try to open any exe file; I get the pop up asking what program to use to open the file with. It comes to any program including internet explore.

  Thank you for your help

  Hi RichCarlson,

  Follow the steps in the section "Let me fix it myself" to resolve the question of:

  When you run an .exe on a Windows Vista-based or Windows 7 computer file, the file may start another program

• When opening a program, such as system restore, it asks what program you want to open this program with ie adobe, yahoo, internet Explorer

  When you open a program, such as the system restore or turbo tax it always ask what program you want to open this program with a list of options such as the Adobe reader, internet explorer, yahoo Messenger, etc..

  is there any solution for this?

  Hello

  The issue seems to be with the file association so corrupt that I suggest you run the fix it or follow the manual procedure provided in the link below to fix the problem.

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/950505