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Windows 11 24H2 breaks the .exe and .com file associations
Hello world, Recently updated to 24H2 feature update on my Dell Latitude 7450 laptop. Update took hours to complete. However, after login in, we found all the exe and com file extensions are broken....
I've fixed this issue twice in the past two weeks. Each time was to remove registry entry using a secondary admin account.
stood logged into broken user profile and switched to secondary admin account to open regedit
removed following two entries (need to find users correct 'user sid', can be found in 'volatile environment' info):
HKEY_USERS \<USER_SID>\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.exe
HKEY_USERS \<USER_SID>\Software\Classes\.exe
signed out of broken user profile via task manager and rebooted