On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 18:19:38 -0800, budhaber
<budhaber@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
[color=blue]
>my son-inlaw has associated my .lnk files (shortcuts) to internet explorer.
>how do i un associate them so my shortcuts will work again.[/color]

If you're saying ALL your shortcuts now open IE, that's bad news.
That's also good question. I'm stumped. I was just going to say go to
Control Panel/Default Programs/Associate File type, but oops I don't
see any way to disassociate without substituting another application
when you access the master list of file types.

The problem is a shortcut can be a link to any application so
shortcuts should NOT have their file type changed, so if you associate
it with another application it still isn't going to help because I
just looked at mine and surprise the default is a entry called
'unknown application'. However I see no way to put it back to unknown.
That's why I said you asked a good question. I'm sure its burried in
the Registry somewhere, maybe somebody else knows.

The hard way, doing it one at a time would be to right click on each
shortcut in turn, then open with, then restore each to its rightful
application. Bumber. Have your son-in-law do it. ;-)