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.exe files won't work!
Name: dylan Date: September 5, 2002 at 17:11:12 Pacific OS: windows xp CPU/Ram: Athlon 800Mhz /512 megs
Comment:
when i double click on an exe file it says it cannot be found and check the path and such...however if i right click it and choose run as current user it works fine. i checked to make sure that hkkeyclassesroot-exefile-shell-open-command was set to "%1" %*
Name: justin Date: September 5, 2002 at 17:57:35 Pacific
Reply:
what did you originally do to create this problem? the obvious answer is to reverse that process.
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Response Number 2
Name: NoName Date: September 6, 2002 at 08:13:24 Pacific
Reply:
Did you check if the quotes are in place?
hkkeyclassesroot-exefile-shell-open-command
right pane in regedit should show default value ""%1" %*"
If you forgot the quotes around %1, the OS will call "c:/program" with argument "files/thedir/theprog.exe" instead of "c:/program files/thedir/theprog.exe" with argument ""
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