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Re: demo.hta is not a valid Win32 application.

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Mayayana wrote:
> "Dave "Crash" Dummy" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote
> 
> | I suspect that some aggressive cleanup utility | stripped something
>  out of the registry. Any suggestions on how to fix | this problem?
> 
> I would export HKCR\.hta and HKCR\htafile, send those to him, and 
> explian how to merge them. That's the essence of how a file gets 
> treated when it's double-clicked. Especially important is the value 
> in shell\open\command. I have the following:
> 
> C:\WINDOWS\System32\mshta.exe "%1" %*

That's what I figured, but nothing is ever simple. In my 64 bit Windows
10 system I have

@="C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\mshta.exe \"%1\"
{1E460BD7-F1C3-4B2E-88BF-4E770A288AF5}%U{1E460BD7-F1C3-4B2E-88BF-4E770A288AF5}
%*"

I could change it and try it out, but my friend is 2000 miles away, 85
years old, and technically challenged. Undoing changes if it doesn't
work would be beyond him. I'd want to see what is already in his
registry for .hta and htafile before adding anything. Maybe I can walk
him through it.
-- 
Crash

One man's weed is another man's wildflower.

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demo.hta is not a valid Win32 application. "Dave \"Crash\" Dummy" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-04-03 19:54 -0400
  Re: demo.hta is not a valid Win32 application. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-03 21:04 -0400
    Re: demo.hta is not a valid Win32 application. "Dave \"Crash\" Dummy" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-04-03 22:08 -0400
      Re: demo.hta is not a valid Win32 application. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-04 09:36 -0400
        Re: demo.hta is not a valid Win32 application. "Dave \"Crash\" Dummy" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-04-04 11:23 -0400
          Re: demo.hta is not a valid Win32 application. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-04 13:26 -0400
            Re: demo.hta is not a valid Win32 application. "Dave \"Crash\" Dummy" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-04-04 14:09 -0400
        Re: demo.hta is not a valid Win32 application. JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2017-04-05 00:43 +0700
          Re: demo.hta is not a valid Win32 application. "Dave \"Crash\" Dummy" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-04-04 14:15 -0400

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