all server dlls now associated with notepad

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 07/14/04 

Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 10:22:24 -0700

>-----Original Message-----
>Through a misunderstanding of how associations are
applied, changing one dll
>on our Windows 2000 server changed ALL dlls to Notepad.
While this has had
>no real effect on running Windows, we feel it opens the
server to more risk
>since any dll file can now be opened and changed. Does
anyone know of a
>registry setting that would break this association
between dll and Notepad
>and put it back to "unknown"?
>Thanks for any help.
>Sharon

In Windows Explorer, go to Tools, Folder Options, File
Types. Find the dll entry (under extensions), showing
that notepad is the file type and delete it.
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