If you find that you cannot open a particular file type, then our File Association Fixer v2 for Windows 10/8/7 will be able to easily help you fix, repair and restore the broken file associations. Broken file associations, are typically caused due to a corrupted Registry. Again the reason for a corrupted registry could be malware or a bad software. As a result of this corruption, your Windows OS is unable to open some files or a particular file type.

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File Association Fixer for Windows 10

If you are unable to open particular files, identify the type of file and use File Association Fixer to fix file type associations easily, with a click!

While our File Association Fixer v1 supported Windows 7 and Windows Vista, our newly released File Association Fixer v2 supports Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, as well as Windows 7, both 32-bit and 64-bit.

Moreover the freeware now offers file association fixes for 70 file types.

File Association Fixer v2 offers quick fixes for the following files types:

AAC, AVI, BAT, BMP, CMD, Contact, CSS, DAT, Deskthemepack, DLL, Doc, Docx, EXE, FLV, GIF, GZ, HTML, ICO, IMG, INF, INI, INK, ISO, JPEG, JPEG, JS, LOG, MID, MIDI, MOV, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPEG, MPG, NFO, OCX, ODC, ODP, ODS, ODT, PNG, PPT, PPTX, PUB, REG, RTF, SWF, SYS, TAR, TWXT, Theme, Themepack, TIF, THMX, TIFF, TXT, UDF, URL, VCF, VCS, WAV, WMA, WMV, XLS, XLSX, XML, XPS, ZIP, 3GP.

To use this portable tool, simply download it from the link given below, and extract its contents. Although you may move the folder to your desired location, do not separate out the contents of this folder.

Kabhi kabhi song lyrics. The download consists of two .exe files, one FAF x32.exe for 32-bit Windows and the other FAF x64.exe for 64-bit Windows. Use the FAF which is suitable for your computer, and click on it to open the application.

Before you use the tool, remember to create a system restore point first.

Next, having identified your broken file association, select the check-box, against that file type, and click Fix Selected. That is all you need to do.

If you wish to uninstall it, you need to simply delete its Program folder, as it is a portable tool.

File Association Fixer v 2.0 has been developed for TheWindowsClub by Lavish Thakkar. If you wish to give feedback or suggestions, please visit The Windows Club Forum.

Have a look at this post if you need extra help to fix broken EXE file association. Again, our FixWin offers tons of fixes to fix and repair Windows. You might want to download it and keep it handy.

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Windows Vista file type and file extension associations may be corrupted, broken and go haywire, causing files with some extensions cannot be opened properly. For example, some third party programs may wrongly set or assign file associations for extensions that not supposed to have a default program such as .exe, .com, .sys, .lnk, folder, directory, drive etc. (actually these special system files has unique associations which is not supposed to be another programs, so that Windows know to handle them accordingly).

Some programs that known to cause such problem including Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE with “Lock executable file associations” option enabled in Ad-Watch via automatic setting, which blocks registry changes related to file associations when new software application is installed or updated. Another possibly problematic app is dTools, which may delete or remove associated default program and icon for .exe, .sys, .scr, .rll, .pko, .pif, .ocx, .wmdb, .wsp, .xmp, .tpl and other extension types. Sometimes, user may accidentally unassociate or delete the file association too, or assign default apps for file extension or file type such as shortcut with .lnk to a wrong program when forget to uncheck “Always use this program to open this type of file” option.

When a file type association for an extension is deleted or not found, the icon for the file type becomes blank in the shape of empty white paper. And when user double clicks or run the affected file of the kind of extension type, system will prompt user with a “Open With” dialog to find a program to open the file with.

The problem is especially worse when the file association for executable with .exe extensions is broken, causing programs such as Adobe Reader, Internet Explorer, Notepad, System Restore, Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and even Registry Editor (which is necessary to fix the invalid file association problem) cannot be started, and unable to launch or execute.

Windows Vista basic file extension Set Association management interface cannot reset and fix the corrupted or invalid file association back to factory default, or at least back to a workable state. As a workaround, user can try to manually remove the user-choice file association to restore back to Windows default file type and extension association.

If the manual deletion of user customized file association does not work, or want to direct yet simple fix for the file type and file extension association problem, winhelponline.com has provided a few registry files that fix and reset several common file associations in Windows Vista back to its original default as if right after fresh installation.

The file association fixes for the following file extensions are available, which can be downloaded in ZIP format which contains a .reg file. Execute the registration entries file to merge the registry keys and values to replace and reset the existing system registry.

• audiocd
• avi
• bat
• bmp
• chm
• cmd
• com
• dvr-ms
• exe
• gif
• htm
• html
• ico
• inf
• jpe
• jpeg
• jpg
• js
• lnk
• mp3
• mpe
• mpeg
• mpg
• msc
• reg
• scr
• tif
• tiff
• txt
• vbs
• wma
• wmv
• xml
• xps
• zip
• Folder
• Directory
• Drive

For user who wants all the file association fixes, here’s a compressed zip file vista_extfix.zip (no longer available) that contains all of the individual file extension association fixes above.

Note that to apply the registration entries file (the .reg file downloaded), user must right click on the .reg file and select “Run as Administrator” to apply the file association fix for the respective file type and extension.