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 PostPost subject: [Help] Windows 7 File Association        Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 11:33 am 
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OK, to start of I have "Free Frog Extractor" as my .rar associated file extension opener. It has worked fine,
today I downloaded a .rar file and noticed that it was corrupt, so I went on a limb to check if it was a .zip
file without renaming it. So I just right clicked the file then selected open with the "explorer.exe" because I
'THOUGHT' that explorer.exe handled the .zips in windows. Apparently not, the cursor flickered and I checked
processes and there was over 450 explorer.exe's running. I couldn't stop it so I logged off, coming back I
noticed that all .rar files are now associated with explorer so I just right clicked and set back to Extract Frog.
HOWEVER, the icon still appears as explorer.exe and it opens it with explorer unless I use open with. This has
totally stuffed up my windows 7. I tried installing WinRAR to see if the installer fixed the file association, it didn't.
Now I can't open any .rar by double clicking the icon, this is very frustrating. Please help.

Additional notes:
-I've reinstalled Free Extract Frog
-I've installed WinRAR
-I've used a file association changer
*All have failed.

Does anyone know how to fix this stupid tiny very inconvenient issue?

Thanks in advanced,
YoshiHDify

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 PostPost subject: Re: [Help] Windows 7 File Association        Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 1:02 pm 
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Set Winrar as default here ?

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 PostPost subject: Re: [Help] Windows 7 File Association        Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 1:26 pm 
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WOW! Thank you soo much, i've tried so many things but that was all it took.
Now I look stupid haha.

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 PostPost subject: Re: [Help] Windows 7 File Association        Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 5:10 pm 
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Only easy if you know how ;)

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