[Muck312]

most executables will not run, but exe's on desktop do such as adobe,  cannot download, launch most applications etc, prompts for "what do you want to open this file with?"

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Did not work. What else can I try or analyze?

[Muck312]

Did not work. What else can I try or analyze?

[Muck312]

I have tried applying that through regedit.it crashes and does not execute

[Muck312]

I have tried in safe mode, no success, same result.

[Muck312]

I will try , haven't yet , but do you have a .Com version?

[Muck312]

The fix seem to apply without crashing but the pc remains problematic. I can't even reinstall windows 10 because it will not execute the .exe files.

[Muck312]

For whatever reason when a file was downloaded it would alter the file name by removing the dot before the exe and replacing with a "_". i.e. file_exe. Once I renamed the files with the dot they took on the icon properties and executed. I could not figure out how to fix that but no worries the reinstall took all of an hour. Case closed, thank you.

[iammykyl]

Gday.

For future ref, possible cause is IE.   Long thread, > https://answers.micr...fbe5ebae?page=2