{"id":1355,"date":"2015-01-20T10:26:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T10:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2015-01-20T10:26:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T10:26:58","slug":"manually-fix-lnk-file-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/?p=1355","title":{"rendered":"Manually fix .lnk file association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Need both these posts first one is only if the user is a domain user and has regedit locked down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/?p=1306\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/?p=1306<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Found by Phaz<\/p>\n<p>Run cmd<\/p>\n<p>whoami \/all<\/p>\n<p>Find their SID<\/p>\n<p>Run regedit as admin and go to HKEY_USERS<\/p>\n<p>Find their SID and edit whatever is needed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologynext.org\/lnk-file-association-fix\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.technologynext.org\/lnk-file-association-fix\/<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Manually fixing the registry<\/h2>\n<p>This is yet another way to fix the issue. Follow these steps:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>Click on the \u201cStart Menu\u201d, type regedit in \u201cSearch Programs and files\u201d and hit Enter. If that doesn\u2019t work, go to C: drive -&gt; Windows and then double click on regedit.exe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>Navigate to following location in registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\FileExts\\.lnk<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>Expand this registry branch by clicking on the arrow. Delete the \u201cUserChoice\u201d sub-key.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>Close the Registry editor and restart your PC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Need both these posts first one is only if the user is a domain user and has regedit locked down. &#8212; http:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/?p=1306 Found by Phaz Run cmd whoami \/all Find their SID Run regedit as admin and go to HKEY_USERS &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/?p=1355\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[272,242],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-notes","tag-lnk","tag-file-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}