Vista file association

Discussion in 'Software' started by brandypeppy, Dec 22, 2007.

  1. brandypeppy

    brandypeppy MajorGeek

    Merry Christmas everyone! My first post here. I have Vista Home Premium on a HP puter. AVG virus protection, cCleaner, startup manager, Windows Defender, Adaware, all good and running. Pretty certain I am clean. However, I was just looking around, went to administrative services in the control panel and was not able to start the services program. So I went to run and typed in services.msc and I get a dialog box telling me that Windows doesn't recognize this and do I want to browse the web or my computer for a program to start this.

    I have run this before but my system has lost this association.
    What file association do I need and how do I reset it? In the control panel, default programs, .msc is not even listed. Help please!
     
    brandypeppy, Dec 22, 2007
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  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi

    Go into your Windows > System32 folder and look for Services file, and if its there double click to run it.

    If not its more like you have some major issues with System files as Services.msc is a core system file, so to try and restore any missing files to Vista you'll need the Vista DVD and then run sfc /scannow

    To run SFC /Scannow click start > type cmd , right click the CMD listing in search and choose Run as Admin ( to open a Command Prompt in an elevated mode ) then type sfc /scannow and hit enter.


    Have you had Malware on your PC at anytime?
    Have you been tweaking any services or have run any tweaking software?
     
    DavidGP, Dec 22, 2007
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  3. brandypeppy

    brandypeppy MajorGeek

    Halo,
    Thank you, the file is there but when I double click it I get the message box asking me to either find a program on the web or specify a program to open it.

    No, I do not think I have been infected with any malware, I am very careful when it comes to that.

    I think this is a rogue file association problem, how do I repair?
     
    brandypeppy, Dec 22, 2007
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  4. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    As its a main system file, you and as Vista is new these repair file may work ok http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm ( .MSC is listed for XP but Vista is very close )

    SFC repair is best option as I listed above the steps to action this.
     
    DavidGP, Dec 23, 2007
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