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hi I've recently installed VLC 1.05 on my newly installed vista ultimate but i don't know what have happen... all my application shortcut and icon turn into vlc and when i want to open, its directed to vlc player... as if all the .exe files and shortcut is associated with vlc...
so i have to uninstall vlc to fix it up... i am a major fan of vlc and i hate if i need to use other media player.. so please anybody could help me with this problem...

VLC shouldn't associate itself to all file types. Only to ones you select during installation.

i saw someone do this before. you must have told a shortcut (.ink) to open with vlc therefore changing the associations to change all shortcuts to run with something as opposed to running themselves. (my friend actually did this with the executeables too (still havn't figured out how he managed to do both. anyways the solution to your problem is to do a system restore back to before you changed it hopefully you still have a restore that old or you will have to reinstall windows.

You can return the file associations without reinstall or system restore.

system restore is the easiest, especially since he should have a restore point before installing vlc anyways. it will right where he wants to go back to. If all shortcuts are set to open with vlc it gets kind of hard to open any programs to change things, thats why I suggested system restore first.