The icons on my desktop look right and programs does not open.

When I click on any program, it does not matter who it is, I get "Photo Gallery can't open this photo or video.  This file format is not supported. "I get this even when I try to open Quicken.  I don't know what happened and don't know how to fix it.  The only icons that look like they are supposed to and work are computer and recycle bin icons.  Someone knows how to solve this problem.  I looked in the files by default, etc and can't seem to find what has changed.  I can access the programs through the computer icon and opening specific files, such as word documents or images, but cannot get an any of them to open it from the desktop.  Help, please!  Thank you!

Use this tutorial, see if it will fix the problem.
http://www.Winhelponline.com/articles/165/1/restore-the-exe-file-association-in-Windows-Vista-after-incorrectly-associating-it-with-another-application.html

Excerpt:
Read this... Difficulty of recording

To resolve this problem, you must delete the UserChoice key above using a script or REG file. Download exefix_cu.reg attached at the end of this article and save it on the desktop. Right click on the REG file and choose Merge.

Then scroll down to... Spare part
and download ...  exefix_cu.reg

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