No, the suggestion didn't work. But to update how I did get my file associations working again,

The first time this occured, back in Feb or March05, I found that I was able to revert back to an...

HI Mike, I just happen to be online right now.

I never have found out *why* this happened, but it happened to me twice as well.

The first time, I found that I was able to revert back to an...

I'd like to do this, but upon entering 'cmd' in the Run box, I get the "open with" dialog: "Click the program you want to use to open 'cmd.exe'"....

Summary: My Win2K desktop machine boots fine, however, when it finishes booting, I am left with virtually all the file assocations gone! Even the Start>Run command prompt asks me to 'open with'.
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Summary: My Win2K desktop machine boots fine, however, when it finishes booting, I am left with virtually all the file, installed application and system application program assocations gone!
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Hi Mike, what did you finally do as a resolution? I came across your posting, as today my PC suddenly did the same thing. (and I have SystemSuite5.0 as well, and it's the only icon available on my...