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everything on desktop suddenly shows acrobat icon and does not open

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madapoco

all programs on my desktop (ie. Word, Mo Firefox, Internet Exp) is suddenly showing the Adobe icon next to it and clicking any program brings up a window that says Adobe Reader can not open the program

all programs on my desktop (ie. Word, Mo Firefox, Internet Exp) is suddenly showing the Adobe icon next to it and clicking any program brings up a window that says Adobe Reader can not open the program

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Looks that the .exe key (HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe) in the registry is broken.

You can try to ask on a Windows related forum on how to restore that key.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/
http://lounge.windowssecrets.com/ Windows Secrets Lounge