How can I fix my icons? Each icon on my PC now opens the game "Neverwinter".

Greetings!

I use computers for 15 years and never had anything like that happen. This morning, I tried to open the game Neverwinter on my PC and in my Start menu shortcut does not work. Then when you select the game exe to open with (with the navigation, etc.), I also checked the box to always use this to open this file.

For me, it was always going to use exe of the game to open the game... to the computer... it has changed every icon non-dossier on my pc on a launcher for this game... and I don't even like the game that much! Now that I read through several Q & A and help topics and various other things and most of them recommend the restoration of the system, which was also my first thought. Unfortunately, because of my compulsive nature, I disabled system restore when I built my PC in December 2011.

Please let me know if there is another way to restore functionality to my icons/computer without reformatting everything, because honestly I feel like maybe this is my only option.

Thanks a lot for your time!

-Va

From what you have stated above, I think that the file association for the shortcut LNK file has been given the misdirection of Neverwinter. I've seen this happen when opening a document or another file via a shortcut (for example. LNK file), you are asked what type of program to open it with. After selecting Neverwinter (or another program) via the Select a program from a list of programs installedand check always use the selected program to open this type of file (circled in red below), the document or program referenced by the shortcut of origin opens in Neverwinter as it should.

The problem is that now all shortcuts (for example. LNK files) on the desktop or in the Explorer and the start menu will want to be opened by Neverwinter and use the icon of Neverwinter to display the shortcut bit whatever the shortcut was initially intended to open. This is known as a file association and the default icon. The same condition can occur if you have performed these actions 'Open with' on one. JPG or even a. EXE, but the. LNK explanation is much more likely for the items on the desktop.

The good news is that a small free utility was written to cancel the. LNK file association was created. There is also a registry hack to achieve, but I recommend the utility unAssoc for its ease of use. I used to send people on another site to download this utility, but this site has become confused with all the ads and fake download links. I put a copy on by SkyDrive own here.

Just download, then use the utility to unassociate the. LNK files for the user or globally delete the file type and let windows rebuild a new default.

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