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Associations Problem
Name: chriszoo Date: May 21, 2003 at 22:23:04 Pacific OS: Win XP CPU/Ram: 1.3ghz/256 ram
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Hi all...
I recently had hte nimda virus, I removed it with Norton...Now I have a bid of annoying problem...When I try to load certain programs..it brings up another program I have on my computer..I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the program that opens when I try to open the files (Remote Administrator 2.1) but it wont help..I tried restoring file associations in registry with .reg files I found on the net but its not helping at all! Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance
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