All My Desktop Icons Turned Into Word Files?

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Yesterday I noticed that all of my desktop icons turned into word files, when I try to go to any of them, it just initiates the Word program and opens as a text file in the Word format. I’ve no idea what happened to get here , it looks as problem with shortcut associations , but I found solution to fix it . So , if you have same problem follow instructions bellow.

1) Download lnkFix.txt

2) Open lnkFix.txt in notepad and Save As IconsFix.reg

3)You should now have an icon like this on your desktop . Double click on icon

4) Restart your computer


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