Help!

[auen1]

Well, I screwed something up. I was trying to open an unknown file, and windows gave me the option of Windows Media Center. So like a dummy, I clicked on it. It made all my programs open with WMC I tried to restore to an earlier point, but it said I can't. Anyone know of a way to fix this? It happened to me a few years ago, but I don't remember what I did.

Thanks!

[jdeb]

I assume Windows 7

Change which programs Windows uses by default

[auen1]

Yep, Win7. I'm looking through the link, but not sure what I'm supposed to reset. WMC seems to want to open all .exe files. What would the default need to be set as?

[jdeb]

All programs open with Windows media center - Microsoft Answers

[auen1]

Dang, that fix exactly described my problem. I followed the directions and the cmd said it was successful. But no change after reboot. I'll try it again.

[auen1]

Good news, I got it fixed. Odd how it happened though. I ran the fix jdeb gave me again no dice. Every program still opened with WMC. So I thought, what the heck, at least I can probably view my pictures I just took, that were on my SD card. As soon as I stuck it in there, everything started to unlock, I could see my files again, but all the programs still had the WMC icon. I clicked a program, and all icons returned to normal. I guess the card shocked the system, but no doubt jdeb's fix suggestion had the most to do with it.

Thank you jdeb. I was sweating bullets.

I remember how I fixed it last time, I nuked the drive.

Probably completely unrelated, when I try to access PCM forums now with my regular ISP, it will not connect. But I tried a proxy and it connects right away. Could it be my IP is now blacklisted with PCM? All other websites work fine.

[glc]

If it were blacklisted, you would still connect - you would get a screen telling you that your IP is banned.

I see who your ISP is, and you were actually connecting through their proxy. Satellite ISP's all have them.