Desktop icons messed up

[Reverend]

What Adobe program has she installed?

[mike13]

Hi Reverend. Thanks for getting back. Adobe 9.4.3.231 is installed.
A correction from my prior post. I said I get a message that Adobe can not open the file etc. most of the messages say that "Windows can not open the file etc. and several times it is rundl32.exe, but not always. I tried to get into the registry, and the message said Windows can not open this file regedit.exe It then asks if I want to go online to find a program to open it or something like that. if I say yes, it goes to that Windows File Association File site. but that does not help me, anyway. So, I can get on the internet.
I can not even open Adobe. I get a message that Adobe Reader can not open sc.reader.ico because it is either not supported, or the file has been changed etc. ( for example it was sent as an e-mail and not correctly decoded). Hope this additional info. helps. Mike

[Reverend]

Go here and update Reader to the latest version 10

http://get.adobe.com/uk/reader/

[Reverend]

Another option:

Download the exefix_xp.com utility and save it to the desktop.

Run the exefix_xp.com file. This should fix the file association in the registry.

If that one doesn't work, try this one xp_fileassoc.zip.

Unzip it to your desktop. Double click the xp_fileassoc.bat file to run it and follow the instructions.

[mike13]

Rev---no luck on downloading the new Adobe 10, or the two options you suggested. . When I try to open any of the three, I sill get that message that Windows can not open the file etc. Mike

[Reverend]

Open notepad and copy and paste the bold text between the lines into it and save the file as fixexe.reg.
Double click the saved file to merge into the registry. Restart the PC.

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe]
@="exefile"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe\PersistentHand…
@="{5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bf…

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell]
@="open"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\…
@="%1" %*
"IsolatedCommand"="%1" %*

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\runas…

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\runas…
@="%1" %*
"IsolatedCommand"="%1" %*
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