Help me understand what I changed - this is wierd

Hello,

I don't know exactly what it was that I changed, but this is the deal:
anytime almost any application is launched in windows XP, photoshop launches
instead.

I believe it happened after I was trying to change the target path of one of
the icons in the start menu. I had 2 versions of photoshop, and I wanted the
new one to launch from there, not the old one. So believe I did something
like right-clicking on an icon, then set the path to the photoshop path....
And now, photoshop launches instead of most of my systray processes. Even if
I double click on My Computer, or any other icon on my desktop, Photoshop
launches.

What the heck did I do? I have gone back to try to do the same thing in
reverse, but I can't find anything that would have that effect. Even trying
to launch regedit launches photoshop!

At login, if I start the task manager to watch the processes launch, there
are 5-6 that are not photoshop, but about 20 then get launched, and they are
all photoshop.exe. Of course, most die off, and only 1 succeeds...

Can you give me some leads on things to try/research? Because I am not sure
I know how to describe this behavior in a searchable phrase.

Thanks!

Erik

Not sure if this is the answer but did you try to do System restore to before
you made the changes?

--Jarek

"Erik Yewell" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I don't know exactly what it was that I changed, but this is the deal:
> anytime almost any application is launched in windows XP, photoshop launches
> instead.
>
> I believe it happened after I was trying to change the target path of one of
> the icons in the start menu. I had 2 versions of photoshop, and I wanted the
> new one to launch from there, not the old one. So believe I did something
> like right-clicking on an icon, then set the path to the photoshop path....
> And now, photoshop launches instead of most of my systray processes. Even if
> I double click on My Computer, or any other icon on my desktop, Photoshop
> launches.
>
> What the heck did I do? I have gone back to try to do the same thing in
> reverse, but I can't find anything that would have that effect. Even trying
> to launch regedit launches photoshop!
>
> At login, if I start the task manager to watch the processes launch, there
> are 5-6 that are not photoshop, but about 20 then get launched, and they are
> all photoshop.exe. Of course, most die off, and only 1 succeeds...
>
> Can you give me some leads on things to try/research? Because I am not sure
> I know how to describe this behavior in a searchable phrase.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Erik