How to restore the association of shortcuts in windows

A friend's shortcut is associated with windows media player, and all icons are converted into music files. Here we will introduce the solution and share it with you.

The method is to modify the Registry as follows:

1. First, win + r

2. Open the running program

3. Input: regedit

4. Find HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREMICROSOFTWINDOWScurrentversionExplorer FileExts. lnk. openwithlist and openwithprogids are found. If there are other options, delete them.

5. Delete all key values except the default value in openwithlist.

6. Delete all key values except default and lnkfile in openwithprogids.

7. Save and exit.

8. restart the computer. It was still abnormal last night. I thought about it for a long time, and I forgot to restart it. After the restart, I got back to normal.
If there are still icons that cannot be restored, you can go to Control Panel> appearance and personalization> click the change desktop icon button, and click "Restore Mo" in the displayed panel.
Recognize it!
This method is applicable to windows server 2003, windows Vista, windows 7, xp, etc. Please note that it will take effect after you change the Registry in xp.