File Association Fixer is designed to fix all those file associations that has been corrupted by any 3rd party software or due to some registry errors. A corrupted Registry, caused either by a bad software or malware or any other reason, can lead to your Windows being unable to open a particular file type. If you find that you are unable to open particular files, than identify the type of file and use this application to fix it easily. To fix the association for a particular file type simply click on the file type association icon or name. You may have to reboot. The simple decent look of this application will help you to fix your file association easily, just click on the file type which is corrupted and that's it. Your file will be fixed in seconds. FAF Fix all your important file association with freeware tool FAF File Association Fixer is available for both Windows 7 and Vista, in Windows Vista, total of 26 File Association Fixes are made available and in Windows 7 only 18. Below is a screen-shot of FAF running in Windows Vista.
I managed to connect .lnk file type with a text editor, which caused all kinds of mischief. One click with this tool fixed it. (I tried exporting a known-good .lnk registry key from a different account and importing it to the broken account, but that didn't fix the problem.)
Completely useless!
grni24
Pros
- Clean, straightforward layout
Cons
- Can only change a preset number of file types
Summary
Not useful at all to anyone trying to change any non-standard file type on the available list of about 10 file extensions.
Utterly useless piece of junk
Vanillaman
Pros
None whatsoever
Cons
It does absolutely nothing at all. A waste of time
Summary
Garbage
FIXES FILE ASSOC. AFTER SPYWARE/MALWARE INFECTIONS
rose211
Pros
DOES WHAT IT SAYS, YOU CAN CHOOSE ALL OR JUST ONE. WORKS PERFECTLY WHEN YOUR FILE ASSOCIATIONS ARE MESSED UP FROM A VIRUS (MY INFECTION WAS "WINDOWS POLICE PRO" THIS RESOLVED MY PROBLEM OF NOT BEING ABLE TO DOUBLE CLICK FOLDERS OR DRIVES TO OPEN)
Cons
NONE, SIMPLE TO USE, DOES EXACTLY WHAT IT SAYS :)
Summary
AFTER USING "MALWAREBYTES" TO SCAN MY COMPUTER, I FOUND THAT I HAD BEEN INFECTED WITH "WINDOWS POLICE PRO" VIRUS. AFTER REMOVAL, I THOUGHT EVERYTHING WAS FINE, BUT SOON REALIZED I COULD NO LONGER DOUBLE CLICK ON FOLDERS, DRIVES, ETC. TO OPEN THEM, I HAD TO RIGHT CLICK AND CHOOSE "OPEN" INSTEAD. EVENTUALLY I FOUND THIS AMAZING PROGRAM THAT DID THE HARD WORK FOR ME. INSTEAD OF MANUALLY EDITING THE REGISTRY THAT WAS TAMPERED WITH BY THE VIRUS (WHICH I'M NOT COMFORTABLE WITH) THIS PROGRAM ALLOWED ME TO PRETTY MUCH RESET ALL OF MY FILE ASSOCIATIONS WITH A SIMPLE CLICK. SINCE I DIDN'T KNOW WHICH ONES NEEDED FIXING, I SIMPLY CLICKED EACH ONE AND AFTER A COMPUTER RESTART, ALL IS BACK TO NORMAL!!! THIS PROGRAM IS WHAT TONS OF PEOPLE ARE NEEDING RIGHT NOW, I'M SURE OF IT. I CAN'T SAY ENOUGH GOOD THINGS ABOUT IT!!! THANK YOU FILE ASSOCIATION FIXER!!!!
doc folders could not open . after fixing all now ok