The desktop icon can not find the program

I'm having a problem where when I click on my desktop icons they can not find the program that is associated with run.

Most of them is related to sites Web that I often use, so I select Internet Explorer as the associated program then remember this radio button, but when I connect and get back in that I get the same error.

I am running windows XP, I say this because I've posted this before, and I referred to a difficulty which will not work with this operating system.

Any help would be appreciated.

Hello JoseVasquez,

Try the automatic solution of the following article:

Article ID: 307859 - how to change or choose which program starts when you double-click a file in Windows XP
http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/307859
 
This should help to restore default associations in Windows XP.

Thank you

Marilyn

Tags: Windows

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