If you cannot open exe or lnk files, learn how to reset, repair, restore broken EXE or LNK file association in Windows. Use FixExec or apply this fix.

File Association Fixer will fix, repair & restore broken & not working file associations in Windows 11/10. It offers 70 file association fixes.

If taskbar, Start menu, or File Explorer stop responding, then try restarting the Windows Explorer process before rebooting Windows 10 — Here's how.

Renegade's Random Tech weblog has a simple how-to for converting batch or .VBS scripts into executable forms using a lesser-known Windows program called IExpress.

Microsoft has open-sourced Windows File Manager, its first graphical interface for managing and accessing files, which debuted in its 1990 Windows 3.0 release.