Run Executable in Windows 7

Hi Friends!

One of my friend pinged me on facebook that he is unable to run any executable in his system. So, in today's post, we will try to solve this issue.

Running any executable in your system is basically a registry value's entry. Most viruses change this value to something else, and as a result, explorer.exe behaves abnormally while handling executables.

So, let's get started:

Step 1: Press Windows+r (run)

Step 2: Type regedit. Press OK

Step 3: You will see a window as shown below:

Click on the + HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT


Step 4: Hover down to exefile\shell\open\command

Follow steps as shown in figure

Step 5: Change the (Default)  to "%1" %* [note the double quotes, they are present, just copy-paste this value].

Similarly change the value for IsolatedCommand to "%1" %* 


Step 6: Now navigate to .exe in the same hierarchy.

Step 7: Change (Default) to exefile


And we are done!

Now you would be able to run all executable in your system.

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