Impossible to get any application that must be opened with .exe files

original title: file extension exe

Cannot get any application that must be opened with .exe files.  This includes all the games. Outlook Express, Microsoft Word and Excel.  Whenever I try to open one of these applications, the computer comes back with a list of available applications and said to ' choose the program the that you want to use to open this file.  None of the work programmes.

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