Beginner - Screwed up his system - MFC (exe) - Regedit!!!

[mongoloid]

Hi, this is so frustrating. I used AppWazard to creat a MFC application. In the advance options, I set File Extension to "exe". Now everything open inside of my stupid Visual C++ application. I cannot use my computer anymore.

My question is how do I open the AppWazard again for my application. There seems no way you can do it unless you open a "new project". I must be wrong, but i cannot overcome the first barrier. So please help.

Thanks a million!

Sharp Beginner

 

[tchouch]

1. Try to find in registry all places with name of Your application and delete keys/values (with regedit or regedit32).
2. Search for string ".exe" in registry and remove Your application from all keys, where it is.

 

[sskumar]

Hi tchouch,
As per mongoloid thread will he be able to run the regedit.exe?!!. I don't think it will open the regedit.exe

S.Senthil Kumar.

 

[tchouch]

1. From command line, for example.
2. He can change .exe - extension: Regedit.exe to Regedit.com - it will start too. I think, it will be possible to start Explorer with mouse right-click in Start button. If he says, he try to start some applications, he is able to start Explorer.
3. There is another way too: he can write in InitInstance() CreateProcess(...) or spawn() or system() or ShellExecute() with program name from CCommandLineInfo - then his program will easy start all applications. Or more easy, start in InitInstance() regedit.exe.

 

[Sun]

Yes renaming regedit.exe to regedit.com will definitely launch the registry editor.

Sun

 

[mongoloid]

Thanks guys, I reinstalled xp since it's getting slow anyways. I knew exactly what I did. I was hoping I could restart the AppWizard so that I can reset the options.