theyettihunta Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 The other day i was trying to open a file and I accidentally clicked virtual box by accident. This changed all of my desktop icons to virtual box( with the exception of the default Microsoft apps) and all the programs in my start menu to virtual box. Now when i click on any of these it opens virtual box. Question: Is there a quicker way to fix this than deleting all of these shortcuts and re-adding them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 I do not see how that is even possible to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Are you sure you didn't get hit with some sort of Java malware? What happens if you uninstall Virtual Box? You could also try a restore point, to a date prior to the day this happened. All else fails, create a new user on the system, migrate your important files over to the new profile(be sure to get all the desktop files, your profile documents, etc), then delete the old one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Did you associate .lnk files with virtual box? Best bet to fix this: Go in to the registry, and delete the key that associates the lnk extension with virtual box :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 If you right click on the file itself, does it give you the option to undo or revert the change back to what it was before? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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