File Association Fixes for Windows 7 and Windows Vista

This page contains the file association fixes for some of the common file types. These fixes are applicable for Windows® 7 and Windows® Vista systems only.

File association fixes for Windows 7

AVI IMG SCR
BAT INF TIF/TIFF
BMP JPE/JPEG/JPG TXT
CHM JS VBS
CMD LNK WMA
COM MP3 WMV
EXE MPE/MPEG/MPG XML
GIF MSC ZIP
HTM/HTML PNG
ICO REG
Directory Drive Folder

File association fixes for Windows Vista

How to use the .reg file?

To fix the association for a particular file type:

  • Download the corresponding fix from the above table. Use Right-click – Save as option in your browser to download the file.
  • Unzip the file and extract the .reg file to Desktop.
  • Right-click on the .reg file and choose Merge. Alternately, you can open the Registry Editor and then using the Import option from the File menu, to apply the contents.

Note that you need to be an administrator to apply these fixes.

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Ramesh Srinivasan is passionate about Microsoft technologies and he has been a ten-time recipient of the Microsoft MVP award in Windows Desktop Experience (Windows Shell), from 2003 to 2012. Ramesh founded Winhelponline.com in 2005.

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76 thoughts on “File Association Fixes for Windows 7 and Windows Vista”

  1. This really helped! I was afflicted by the “Windows Media Center has taken over my computer” syndrome. Actually WMC had substituted its icon for every icon that referred back to an .exe file. Click on the icon and you would get WMC. I used the fix for .exe extension, then rebooted, and all was back to normal. Thanks.

  2. Thank You So Very much. i spent 3 days trying numerous fixes and methods and you had and easy fix just laying here. i am forever your devoted fan.

  5. Thank You, I was so worried that something happened to my pc and all my games, documents, etc. gone I was nearly mad.
    But you saved my life. But there is still problem left-The images of their icon are not restored.

  6. Thank you so much for this site! Tried all kinds of fixes to no avail…this one fixed my exe file issue immediately

  8. im having alienware 17r2 this pc is something which cant afford… one the first day of use itself this error happened to me.. thank you so much for saving my pc …
    hats off

  9. OMG this worked like a charm. I have this problem for my LNK and EXE files. After months of agony, thank you so much.

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