For The REAL Expert... Win 98 does not know how to handle LINKS any longer :-(
Paolo
my dad's PC (WIN98/SE) came up with a problem: the links are no longer
recognized as links. Not Internet links: FILE LINKS!
All the links (except for Explorer, that is not a link) on the desktop
now show the generic Windows icon; the little arrow in the lower corner
(characteristic of the links) has disappeared; and the extension .LNK or
.PIF (for DOS applications), normally hidden, is now visible.
If you click on any link, the window that asks you to choose the
application to be used to open that file pops up: but it does not refer
to the APPLICATION file, it refers to the LINK! This means that what went
lost is not the association between a file and the application used to
open it (as sometimes may happen), but something at a lower level: the
association between .LNK and .PIF files and the system.
If you launch directly the executable file of the application from
START|RUN, it opens regularly like always: another proof that what went
lost is just the capability to execute the LINKS, not the applications.
How to get out of this? We have at our disposal another machine with
WIN98/SE, should any file need to be copied from a working system.
Thank you everybody for your help.
Ingeborg
Is the problem less than 5 days old? In that case try a registry restore.
"How to Manually Restore the Windows 98/Me Registry"
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/221512>
Choose the backup from before the problem arrived.
mort
"Paolo" <inv...@libero.it> wrote in message
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> Hello everybody,
> If you click on any link,
If You?
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> If you launch directly
If You?
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> How to get out of this?
Tale a deep breath....
kimbo_
--
I`m not a complete idiot, there`s still a few bits missing
> Tale a deep breath....
LOL
glee
If Ingeborg's suggestion of restoring the previous registry does not work for you,
download this zip file:
http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/assets/images/LnkW98.zip
from MVP Ron Badour's web page:
http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/reg_files.html
Unzip the .reg file in the .zip file to your Desktop, then right-click the .reg
file, click "Merge" on the menu that appears, then OK to the confirmation message.
That will repair the .LNK association. If you need to also repair the .PIF
association, let me know and I will upload a .reg file for that to my web space, and
post a link.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
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"Paolo" <inv...@libero.it> wrote in message
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Paolo
wrote:
>Sorry can`t help but they are refered to as short cuts not links.
Well, sorry for that, but the Italian name they are referred to is
translated "LINK" in English.
Apart of this, any suggestion?
Thank you Ingeborg, I'll try it ASAP.
Gary S. Terhune
"lnkfile" with the (hidden) extension LNK. LNK is short for LINK.
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MS-MVP Shell/User
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Franc Zabkar
to keyboard and composed:
>the extension .LNK or
>.PIF (for DOS applications), normally hidden, is now visible.
FWIW I have intentionally set up my PC to display the extensions of
all my .lnk and .pif files. Maybe I'm paranoid but I suspect malware
could hide inside an innocent looking file such as filename.txt(.pif).
- Franc Zabkar
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Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.
Paolo
wrote:
>Hi Paolo,
>
>If Ingeborg's suggestion of restoring the previous registry does not work for you,
>download this zip file:
>http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/assets/images/LnkW98.zip
>from MVP Ron Badour's web page:
>http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/reg_files.html
>
>Unzip the .reg file in the .zip file to your Desktop, then right-click the .reg
>file, click "Merge" on the menu that appears, then OK to the confirmation message.
>
>That will repair the .LNK association. If you need to also repair the .PIF
>association, let me know and I will upload a .reg file for that to my web space, and
>post a link.
Glen, there is a problem: when I right-click on that file, there isn't
any "MERGE" option available. This isn't a mere question of language
(my WIN98 is italian): there isn't any option that would mean "merge" in
Italian. There are the usual options of always: copy-cut-paste etc...
What do I do?
Sorry for crossposting, if it's OK for you to keep this discussion in
microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion or any other, I will quit the
others.
Thank you.
Gary S. Terhune
always be enabled and Hide Extensions should always be DISabled. In fact,
with one exception (Show pop-up descriptions) I always change Win98's folder
options for Files & Folders to exactly the opposite of duhfaults.
--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
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Franc Zabkar
<grys...@mvps.org> put finger to keyboard and composed:
>Except in extraordinary (and temporary) circumstances, Show All Files should
>always be enabled and Hide Extensions should always be DISabled. In fact,
>with one exception (Show pop-up descriptions) I always change Win98's folder
>options for Files & Folders to exactly the opposite of duhfaults.
The extensions for LNK and PIF files remain hidden irrespective of the
Hide Extensions setting.
SHS (shellscrap) is another exploitable extension that does not obey
the Hide Extensions setting.
See http://www.pc-help.org/security/scrap.htm
Gary S. Terhune
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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
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glee
Paolo,
Are you right-clicking on the extracted file with the .reg extension, or on the .zip
file?
What happens if you double-click the .reg file?
Try Franc's suggestion....
Click Start> Run, type: regedit.exe |Click OK|
Click the Registry menu> Import..., and point it to the .reg file you extracted.
We may need to fix your .reg file association also.
It's fine with me to keep the thread in win98.gen_discussion.
Paolo
FORMAT C: of course...)
Ben Myers
Put the file on the problem computer, double-click it, then confirm the change.
You may have to restart the computer for the change to take effect.
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.lnk]
@="lnkfile"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.lnk\ShellNew]
"Command"="C:\\WINDOWS\\rundll32.exe AppWiz.Cpl,NewLinkHere %2"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile]
@="Shortcut"
"EditFlags"=hex:01,00,00,00
"IsShortcut"=""
"NeverShowExt"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\CLSID]
@="{00021401-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shellex]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shellex\IconHandler]
@="{00021401-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shellex\DropHandler]
@="{00021401-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\{00021401-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]
@=""
[end]
Ben
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glee
Please answer my questions inb my last reply:
Are you right-clicking on the extracted file with the .reg extension, or on the .zip
file?
What exactly happens if you double-click the .reg file?
Try Franc's suggestion....
Click Start> Run, type: regedit.exe |Click OK|
Click the Registry menu> Import..., and point it to the .reg file you extracted.
What happens when you do that?
Please don't say "Nothing"....describe what happens.
--
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Rich
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> REGEDIT4
> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.lnk]
Anybody got the equivalent fix for .URL files? Mine are no longer behaving
as internet shortcuts, and always show the extension, as described here for
.LNK files.
Ben Myers
If you use Internet Explorer, click "Start", "Run", type "msinfo32",
select "Tools", "Internet Explorer Repair tool", select "Repair
Internet Explorer" and click "OK".
Ben
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Gary S. Terhune
follow-up, it ain't happening. If you are willing to subscribe to one of the
other ones (I have the rest subscribed) I'll be glad to post the REG file.
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Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
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http://grystmill.com/articles/security.htm
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Rich
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> Well, I have one, but I don't post to alt.windows98, so with your
> chosen follow-up, it ain't happening. If you are willing to subscribe
> to one of the other ones (I have the rest subscribed) I'll be glad to
> post the REG file.
>
Sorry - don't post much, and also didn't realize
microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion was even available on this lame
server. I'm there now, so fire away. Thanks.
Paolo
wrote:
>Paolo,
>Please answer my questions inb my last reply:
>
>Are you right-clicking on the extracted file with the .reg extension, or on the .zip
>file?
>
>What exactly happens if you double-click the .reg file?
>
>Try Franc's suggestion....
>Click Start> Run, type: regedit.exe |Click OK|
>Click the Registry menu> Import..., and point it to the .reg file you extracted.
>What happens when you do that?
>
>Please don't say "Nothing"....describe what happens.
I was right-clicking on the .REG (extracted) file of course, I threw away
the ZIP file as soon as I extracted the REG file :)
There is no "MERGE" option because the system does NOT recognize it as a
register file, there is just the "Open with...", "Copy", "Cut"... the
usual stuff.
I said "nothing" because after all the trials, the system keeped (keeps)
behaving just as before...
Sorry for being so late in my answer.
Thank you for your patience.
PCR
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(a) What about the other part of that...?...
"START button, Run, RegEdit, Registry menu, Import Registry File"
(b) What do you see in this Registry key, if anything other than
CDRAutoRun & NoDriveTypeAutoRun...?...
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Exp
lorer
glee
borrowed from an old post by Steve Yandl:
You can use Regedit to manually write back the settings for reg files, or you can
build a reg file from what's posted between the lines below (don't forget extra
carriage return at end of file), name it "fixreg.reg" and merge the reg file with
the command line:
regedit.exe fixreg.reg
/---start below this line---------------------------------------
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.reg]
@="regfile"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\regfile]
@="Registration Entries"
"EditFlags"=hex:00,00,00,00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\regfile\DefaultIcon]
@="c:\\windows\\regedit.exe,1"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\regfile\shell]
@=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\regfile\shell\open]
@="Mer&ge"
"EditFlags"=hex:01,00,00,00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\regfile\shell\open\command]
@="regedit.exe \"%1\""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\regfile\shell\print]
@=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\regfile\shell\print\command]
@="c:\\windows\\NOTEPAD.EXE /p %1"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\regfile\shell\edit]
@="&Edit"
"EditFlags"=hex:01,00,00,00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\regfile\shell\edit\command]
@="c:\\windows\\NOTEPAD.EXE %1"
/---end here---------------------------------------
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glee
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