You might encounter a situation where you may not be able to open any .exe files or shortcut link files, i.e., EXE or LNK files. You might instead get a “Open with” dialog box, or it may open the file ...

One of my biggest gripes with Windows XP vs. Windows 2000 is the much slower performance that I observe while using Windows Explorer. I'm looking for ways to make explorer.exe in Windows XP behave ...

When you double-click on a file in Windows, it will automatically open a default program that is configured to manage these types of files. It is common, though, want or need to use a different ...

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