Choose Default Program does not work (is broken) on Windows

Posted by Piotr Dobrogost on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Piotr Dobrogost
Published on 2009-11-11T21:08:31Z Indexed on 2010/04/23 4:53 UTC
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For some time now when I click Open with...|Choose Default Program from Windows Explorer's context menu I'm getting this error

This file does not have a program associated with it to perform this action. Create an association in the Set Associations control panel.

I'm getting this error no matter what the extension of the selected file is.
Any ideas how to fix this?

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